bring to heel

基本解釋

Andrew is attracted to that pretty girl and no matter what his friends said , she will always be able to bring him to heel.
安德魯被那美麗的女孩深深吸引，不論他的朋友說什么，她永遠都有辦法使他乖乖就范。
Having beaten off brutal attempts to bring them to heel, the Dutch now have little love for Hapsburg-ruled Spain or Austria. A distant Catholic emperor holds no appeal for them.
在擊退了他們強大的攻擊后，荷蘭人對于在哈普斯堡皇室統(tǒng)治下的西班牙和奧地利已經(jīng)沒有了好感。
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But these are also unlikely to bring the organization to heel — though they may exercise sufficient pressure eventually to achieve, with the mediation of Turkey or Egypt, a renewed temporary truce.
但是，這樣也不大可能使敵對組織就范——盡管他們可以造成足夠的壓力，最終在土耳其或埃及的調(diào)解下達成一個新的臨時?；饏f(xié)議。

He was notable, in particular, for doing nothing to bring to heel the country's huge natural-gas monopoly, Gazprom, the company he used to run (see article).
ECONOMIST: Collapse in Russia The
Now there is concern that the government may be trying to bring newspapers to heel.
ECONOMIST: Newspaper fears in Pakistan