figureheads

figureheads

美 [?f?ɡj?r?hed] 　英 [?f?ɡ?(r)?hed]

  • n.船頭雕飾；破浪神的雕像；(有名無實的)傀儡領袖；〈謔〉嘴臉

詞形變化

復數：figureheads  

英漢解釋

n.
1.
船頭雕飾;破浪神的雕像
2.
(有名無實的)傀儡領袖
3.
〈謔〉嘴臉

英英解釋

n.

例句

Japanese chief executives are often figureheads, while real (but informal) power resides elsewhere, perhaps with the chairman.

日本的公司總經理通常都是傀儡，而真正掌握實權的隱匿在幕后，可能與董事長有關。

This makes it difficult for Japanese bosses to be leaders rather than just figureheads.

這就使得日本的老板們要想成為真正的領導者而不僅僅只是傀儡這一愿望變得難以實現。

They are often mere figureheads who serve for a short time before handing the baton to other old company hands.

他們通常并不掌握實權，在擔任管理者短時間后就要將指揮棒交到其他為公司服務多年的員工手中。

If city-dwellers believe that mayors will be costly figureheads, they are likely to vote against them.

如果市民認為市長們只會成為昂貴的傀儡，那么他們很可能投票反對這些市長。

Others see them as figureheads, little more than mascots.

另外的狼人把他們當成象征性的首腦，就和吉祥物沒什么差別。

Every period of market madness, whether up or down, has its figureheads.

無論是上漲還是下跌，每一段市場瘋狂期都有其代表人物。

In truth, they were never more than figureheads for a movement whose demands for constitutional change exceeded their own more modest aims;

事實上，他們僅是反抗運動的傀儡而已，而該運動要求憲法改革超過了他們本身更緩和的意愿；