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whip /wɪp/► SEE ALLget, have, hold, etc. the whip hand (over sb)crack the whipa fair crack of the whip
●get, have, hold, etc. the ˈwhip hand (over sb)have power or control (over sb) 执掌大权；执鞭在手；控制（某人）◆The government knows that the army have the whip hand.
政府知道军队执掌大权。◆Our opponents had the whip hand over us right from the beginning.
我们的对手从一开始就控制了局面。●crack the ˈwhipuse your authority or power to make sb work very hard, usually by treating them in a strict way 威逼（某人努力工作）◆What you need to do is crack the whip and make sure that they do the job properly.你需要采取铁腕政策，让他们好好干活。●a fair crack of the ˈwhip (BrE, informal) a fair or reasonable opportunity to do sth or to show that you can do sth 公平合理的机会◆I don’t think he was really given a fair crack of the whip. He only had five minutes to present his suggestions.我觉得他没有得到均等的机会，他只有五分钟的时间来阐述建议。◆We all got a fair crack of the whip. We can’t complain.我们都得到了公平的机会，没什么可抱怨的。 |