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.
他说：“央行都不喜欢这样，因为这会使它们被更多地压制于财政部的大拇指之下。”
Like Iranians before them, Egyptians may neither forget, nor forgive, those who kept them under the thumb of an oppressive ruler.
正如他们的先例，伊朗人一样，埃及人既不会忘记，也不会原谅那些曾经把他们踏在脚下的统治者。
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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.
作为未来巴勒斯坦国两块领土之一，加沙地带被哈马斯所占据，并在外交上实行了“锁国”政策。

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But their complaint was against bourgeois flabbiness, not against business itself or keeping workers under the thumb.
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