1be at somebody’s beck and callOBEYto always be ready to do what someone wants 听命于某人,对某人唯命是从
I was tired of being at her beck and call all day long.
我厌倦了整天受她支使。
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be at somebody’s beck and call• I have never liked to be at anybody's beck and call.• She was always rushing around at her mother's beck and call.• I had to be at his beck and call, night and day.
beck• Or take a portfoliomanager who has worked for a large company with 30 analysts at her beck and call.• He looked out across the darkeningmoor, its becks and mires, its hillsdbonyridges of granite.• The water mill was sited at Mill beck and it continued in use until the 1860s.• With such an awesometechnology at our beck and call we tend to view television like any other appliance.• He was obliged to eat with the servants, and was completely at the archbishop's beck and call.• Cross the beck by the bridge and turn right, down to the shore of Crummock Water.• Do you really want to give up the relativeease of having a whole accountingdepartment at your beck and call?