bring to heel
基本解释
- 使就范
- 使顺从
英汉例句
- Andrew is attracted to that pretty girl and no matter what his friends said , she will always be able to bring him to heel.
安德鲁被那美丽的女孩深深吸引，不论他的朋友说什么，她永远都有办法使他乖乖就范。 - Having beaten off brutal attempts to bring them to heel, the Dutch now have little love for Hapsburg-ruled Spain or Austria. A distant Catholic emperor holds no appeal for them.
在击退了他们强大的攻击后，荷兰人对于在哈普斯堡皇室统治下的西班牙和奥地利已经没有了好感。
blog.sina.com.cn - But these are also unlikely to bring the organization to heel — though they may exercise sufficient pressure eventually to achieve, with the mediation of Turkey or Egypt, a renewed temporary truce.
但是，这样也不大可能使敌对组织就范——尽管他们可以造成足够的压力，最终在土耳其或埃及的调解下达成一个新的临时停火协议。 - He was notable, in particular, for doing nothing to bring to heel the country's huge natural-gas monopoly, Gazprom, the company he used to run (see article).
ECONOMIST: Collapse in Russia The - Now there is concern that the government may be trying to bring newspapers to heel.
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