For years the nation had been under the heel of a dictatorial regime.多年来这个国家一直被独裁政权统治着。In the early nineteenth century Italy was under the heel of Austria.十九世纪初义大利处于奥地利的统治下。This country would never submit to living under the heel of a foreign power.这个国家决不会屈从于外国势力的控制。