musical chairs

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• n.【游】搶椅子游戲；形容人們在混亂的局勢下頻繁更換工作的情況
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)音樂椅；搶座位游戲；音樂椅子

英漢雙解

英漢解釋

n.	1. 【游】搶椅子游戲,參與者在音樂伴奏下圍著椅子轉(zhuǎn),音樂停止時搶座位,因椅子數(shù)比人數(shù)少一,所以每次淘汰一人,然后減少一張椅子,游戲繼續(xù),直到最后剩一人則勝出 2. 形容人們在混亂的局勢下頻繁更換工作的情況

英英解釋

n.

1. [Game]a children’s game in which players walk round a row of chairs and quickly sit down when the music stops, and there is one less chair than there are people, so the person who does not get a chair leaves the game, and this continues until there is only one person left 2. a situation in which people often exchange jobs or positions in a confusing way

例句

He had come out on top in the game of musical chairs by which senior posts seemed to be filled.

已經(jīng)輪到他獲得高級職位了，這種職位似乎是要輪候的。

"It is part of a huge game of musical chairs over the next two years as officials hit retirement age and others move into the empty slots" .

“某些官員達(dá)到退休年齡，其他人來填補(bǔ)空缺，這是未來兩年里將會上演的一場龐大的‘音樂椅’游戲的一部分。”

There is one other group, however, that finds itself left out of this game of social musical chairs: Jia women.

還有另一個群體，即發(fā)現(xiàn)自己被這個社會“搶椅子活動”中的混略掉的甲級女人。

This game of political musical chairs somehow seems easier than thinking about a strategic response to the insecurities of east Asia.

相對于思考對東亞地區(qū)不安全局面的戰(zhàn)略回應(yīng)，這種政治上的搶座位游戲似乎更容易一些。

What unfolded may have been the most polite, most apologetic, and least competitive game of musical chairs in the history of the world.

展現(xiàn)在我們眼前的恐怕是世界歷史上最禮貌、最謙卑、最沒有競爭力的音樂椅游戲。

Little change in policy is expected, nor even in personnel, apart from a polite game of musical chairs at the very top.

政策僵化死板，除了在最高位置上的你來我往之外，甚至難有人事變動。

Shops have changed places in a version of musical chairs, leaving empty storefronts in their wake.

商店的位置走馬燈似的換著，留下一些空店面等待利用。

"Every bubble is a game of musical chairs, " says Steve Blank, a former serial entrepreneur who teaches at Stanford.

“每一個泡泡都是一場音樂會座椅上的游戲”任教于斯坦福的前系列性的實(shí)業(yè)家Steve說。

Our company played musical chairs again, and I was the one left seatless.

我們公司又玩搶椅子游戲了，而我成了最左邊那個沒有椅子的人。

The planets will be playing musical chairs this month, with Uranus, Jupiter, and Mars changing signs.

這個月行星們將進(jìn)行搶座位的游戲，伴隨著天王星、木星、火星的改變跡象。

Musical chairs . . . leggy nurses play morbid tunes on violins while guests get stuck in to their food.

音樂椅…客人狼吞虎咽的時候，長腿護(hù)士用小提琴奏起病態(tài)的曲調(diào)為他們伴奏。

Some traditional birthday games include: pin the tail on the donkey, bobbing for apples, musical chairs and more.

傳統(tǒng)的生日宴會游戲還包括：給驢子綁上尾巴，用牙齒咬晃動的蘋果，音樂椅和其它游戲。

For Gregory's birthday, we invited his classmates over and taught them to play musical chairs. Disaster!

在為兒子過生日時，我們邀請了他的同學(xué)并教他們玩搶椅游戲。災(zāi)難！

The boss regularly played musical chairs with department heads to keep them fresh on the job.

老板經(jīng)常互調(diào)各個部門領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的職位以保證他們的全新姿態(tài)。

We will play musical chairs with them if necessary but they will never get the seat of financial power again.

如果必要的話，我們會和他們玩搶座位的游戲，但是他們絕對再也得不到金融權(quán)力之椅。

That is the chapter that has a lot of nonsense about musical chairs, beauty contests, and the seasonality of ice prices.

在這一章中，充滿了搶座位游戲、選美比賽、冰塊價格隨季節(jié)變動等烏七八糟的內(nèi)容。

Like every bubble, this is a game of musical chairs.

就像每次泡沫一樣，現(xiàn)在是僧多粥少。

Every day editorial rooms clatter with the sound of musical chairs and broken egos.

每天，編輯室都會充滿椅子碰撞聲，自尊被打碎的嘆息聲。

Have a game day where you play favorite childhood games like pin the tail on the donkey or musical chairs.

花一天的時間玩小時候最愛的游戲，比如貼驢子尾巴或搶椅游戲。

A Game of Ethnic Musical Chairs? Immigrant Businesses and the Alleged Formation and Succession of Niches in the Amsterdam Economy

族裔音樂主持人的游戲？阿姆斯特丹移民企業(yè)和小環(huán)境的延續(xù)

Musical chairs & the tale of Z

更迭與字母Z的故事