underdogs

英 [ˈʌndədɒgz]

美 [ˈʌndərˌdɔgz]

n.  处于劣势的人(或团队、国家等); 弱者; 比赛前不被看好者
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柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （竞争、竞赛等中的）劣势方，弱者
  The underdogin a competition or situation is the person who seems least likely to succeed or win.
  1. Most of the crowd were cheering for the underdog to win just this one time.
     人群里的大多数人都在为劣势一方鼓劲，希望他哪怕就赢这一次。
  2. ...Webb, the underdog in this race.
     在这次比赛中处于劣势的韦伯

双语例句

• The little team that could, average joe's gymnasium, underdogs throughout.
  这个不知名的乔大叔队的夺冠。
• George Graham's team, shorn of top scorer Ian Wright, were overwhelming underdogs against the might of Parma in the1994 Cup Winners'Cup final.
  在1994年优胜者杯决赛中面对强大的帕尔马，格拉汉姆带领的以赖特为箭头的球队完全不被看好。
• People faver underdogs but follow only top dogs.
  人们喜欢无名小卒，却只追随大人物。
• Although they were considered underdogs the team kept it's nose to the grindstone and won the championship.
  虽然他们过去不被看好，但这支队伍仍硬著头皮上场并得到了冠军。
• You admit that England will start the tournament as underdogs, so who do you see as the favourites?
  你承认英格兰队在即将开始的决赛中是弱者，那么你认为哪些是强队呢？
• Like them, we'll definitely go into this final as underdogs, but if we get a bit more luck than they did hopefully the outcome will be different.
  像他们一样，我们在决赛中也是弱者，但是如果我们比他们多一点点运气，这结果就会不同。
• But too often society's underdogs – the poor, the uneducated, nonwhites – were not.
  但往往社会的弱势群体穷人，没有受过教育的人，有色人种得不到公平待遇。
• The genuine feeling of being underdogs at every stage and therefore a general happy-go-lucky carefree attitude that we couldn't lose even if we lost was another.
  在其他锦标中作为输家的感受和因此带来的听天由命、不负责任的态度一扫而光。
• United knew they were underdogs and said they did not mind, but Sir Alex Ferguson's sides do not get much practice at springing surprises on superior opponents, and they had no workable gameplan here.
  曼联知道自己不被看好，但弗格森爵士的球队并没有做足够的演练，他们没有一个切实可行的比赛计划。
• The Sixers had been double-digit underdogs, but showed they had a heroic heart.
  七六人队长期以来一直是得分只有两位数、不被看好的球队，不过他们却展现雄心万丈的气势。