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常见例句

雙語例句

• 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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• Chechnya itself has been relatively calm in recent years under the thumb of the local strongman Ramzan Kadyrov, installed by Mr Putin as Chechen president in 2007.
  車臣本土，近年在本地鉄腕人物拉姆贊•卡德羅夫的統治下，相對平靜，此人於2007年被普京先生任命爲車臣縂統。
• 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。

權威例句

• Under the scheme, Washington brought the tobacco industry under the thumb of federal regulation.
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• He stayed home to lend support to besieged democrats under the thumb of Robert Mugabe.
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• The British preferred to allow him to return via Portugal, formally a neutral country but under the thumb of Germany.
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