| 单词 | pull strings |
| 释义 | pull stringspull strings 1 to secretly use your influence with important people in order to get what you want or to help someone else 〔为了自己的利益或帮助别人而〕托关系，走后门 Francis pulled strings to get him out of trouble. 弗朗西斯托关系让自己摆脱了麻烦。 Examples from the Corpus pull strings• Mrs Naulls was in Sunningdale because her son Stanley was a Hilderbridge councillor and had pulled strings.• This, of course, leaves Karadzic amply able to pull strings from backstage.• Elfed could and did pull strings on the local Co-operative committee.• Samuels pulled strings to get her daughter a job in Mitchell's office.• He pulled strings to get the two of them into a university.• Gooch has developed as a captain, too, pulling strings whereas before he might have retreated. → pull strings at pull1(1) 2 to control something or someone, especially when you are not the person who is supposed to be controlling them 幕后操纵；暗中控制 It was widely believed that Montagu was secretly pulling the strings behind the prime minister. 人们普遍认为蒙塔古在暗中控制首相。 Examples from the Corpus pull the/somebody’s strings• However, I was going to try to pull the right strings.• In his own way, he knew how to pull her strings.• But if he was the puppet, who was pulling the strings and to what dance?• So, when he died, the puppets had no-one to pull their strings anymore.• The scientists pulling his strings are erratic.• Who is really pulling the strings at the White House?• Swindon's John Reynolds the man who pulled the strings for Andre Agassi.• She, who had always pulled the strings, to have found herself in this position. → pull the/somebody’s strings at pull1(2) |
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