They've got us over a barrel. Either we agree to their terms or we lose the money.

他们让我们别无选择。我们要么答应他们的条件，要么损失这笔钱。

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A larger group of fatalists who think that Russia "has us over a barrel", as one diplomat punningly puts it.

正如一名外交官一语双关地指出的那样，一大批宿命论者认为俄罗斯“使我们处于困境”。

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Because the USA is nearly bankrupt and the Chinese have them over a barrel.

因为美国和中国已接近破产装桶。

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Who, of course, knowing that they had them over a barrel, were not playing ball.

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Overall, however, the health-care unions appear to have held the government over a barrel of its own making.

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