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单词 underbelly
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underbelly

(ʌndəʳbeli)
Word forms: plural underbellies
1. countable noun
The underbelly of something is the part of it that can be most easily attacked or criticized.
In his view, small and medium-sized companies are the soft underbelly of the economy. [+ of]
...the fashionable world and its seamy underbelly.
2. countable noun
The underbelly of an animal or a vehicle is the underneath part of it.
...the underbelly of a fish.
The missiles emerge from the underbelly of the transport plane. [+ of]

underbelly in British English

(ˈʌndəˌbɛlɪ)
nounWord forms: plural -lies
1. 
the part of an animal's belly nearest to the ground
2. 
a vulnerable or unprotected part, aspect, or region

underbelly in American English

(ˈʌndərˌbɛli)
noun
1. 
the lower, posterior part of an animal's belly
2. 
any vulnerable or unprotected area, region, point, etc.

Examples of 'underbelly' in a sentence
underbelly

The restorative power of the sport has a darker underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Tottenham have been widely accused of having a soft underbelly.
The Sun (2015)
But two goals in two minutes underlined the soft underbelly.
The Sun (2008)
There is still a lot to smile at here but there's also a dark underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Beware: creativity can have a dark underbelly.
Christianity Today (2000)
The next year was a trawl through the sport 's underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This Arsenal side have a soft underbelly and could well end up with another stuffing today.
The Sun (2014)
In the past, they have been hampered by a soft underbelly.
The Sun (2013)
His study is pitched right in capitalism's soft underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Care was lavished just as much on the symphony's softer underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The front five of their pack play for Wales and the suggestion that it has a soft underbelly is rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Yet there was a dark underbelly to their success - the product of different egos within the band battling for creative control.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A serious look at the dark underbelly of the world's most beautiful city.
The Sun (2014)
There is a lot of comedy, but there's a dark underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
In a café in Canterbury, he reflects on the underbelly of sporting success.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
They did not see Italy as a " soft underbelly" through which Europe could be invaded.
French, David The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000 (1990)
No heart, no brain, no soft underbelly.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
By cosying up to the soft Tory underbelly in the southeast of England?
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
But in Act II she gets a hard lesson in politics and the underbelly of life.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
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