under the thumb

基本解释

“Central banks hate doing that because it puts them more under the thumb of the finance ministry, ” he said.
他說：“央行都不喜歡這樣，因爲這會使它們被更多地壓制於財政部的大拇指之下。”
Like Iranians before them, Egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.
正如他們的先例，伊朗人一樣，埃及人既不會忘記，也不會原諒那些曾經把他們踏在腳下的統治者。
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One of the two bits of a future Palestinian state, the Gaza Strip, is under the thumb of the Islamists of Hamas and locked out of the diplomacy.
作爲未來巴勒斯坦國兩塊領土之一，加沙地帶被哈馬斯所佔據，竝在外交上實行了“鎖國”政策。

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