boss around

英 [bɒs əˈraʊnd]

美 [bɔːs əˈraʊnd]

对…颐指气使; 对…指手画脚

柯林斯词典

• → see:boss 3

英英释义

verb

• be bossy towards
  1. Her big brother always bullied her when she was young
  Synonym:strong-armbullybrowbeatbullyragballyraghectorpush around

双语例句

• They are the ones who will answer your questions when the boss is not around.
  当老板不在时，他们可回答你的问题。
• The employees would goof off whenever the boss wasn't around.
  只要老板不在，雇员便偷懒。
• He fawning manner whenever the boss is around just makes me curl up.
  每当老板在时，他那摇尾乞怜的样子真使我恶心。
• Supporters argue that this reverses centuries of injustice since the Spanish conquest, and ensures that a "white" minority can no longer boss Indians around.
  支持者声称这它推翻了自西班牙占领后沿袭下来的数个世纪的不公正，而且保证了“白种人”这一少数群体将不能再骑在印第安人头上作威作福。
• Don't let the boss see you standing around doing nothing.
  别让老板看见你闲站着不做事。
• One of the things that they set out to do first was, of course, to scare us, and to show the stupid frosh they were boss around here.
  高年级同学们准备做的第一件事，当然是吓唬我们，向这些愚蠢的新生显示他们才是这里的老大。
• "His fawning manner whenever the boss is around just makes me curl up. I tell you--it curls me up," said John.
  老板一来，他那副拍马屁的样子实在叫我恶心。告诉你，那副样子实在叫我恶心，约翰说。
• You guys tried to boss me around since we were kids.
  我们小的时候你们就想让我当老大。
• I'm the new straw boss around here.
  我是这里新的工头。
• She better not try and boss me around.
  她最好不要指挥我。