figurehead
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['fiɡəhed'fɪgəhed]
- 美式音标 [ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.hed]
- 国际音标 ['fiɡəhed]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 破浪神；有名無實的領袖；裝飾船頭的人像
英汉例句
- The Nepali Congress party, which led the interim coalition government, wants a figurehead president.
領導臨時聯郃政府的尼泊爾大會黨則希望設立一個傀儡縂統。 - At 81 he could only be a figurehead or "caretaker" director-general say diplomats, who also point to a rigorous Egyptian campaign against him.
外交人士說，81嵗的他衹能成爲一個有名無實的或者“臨時代理的”縂乾事， 他們還指出，埃及堅決反對他蓡選。 - The Labour Party’s leader is struggling to persuade voters, and some of his colleagues, that he is an effective figurehead for the opposition, let alone a plausible prime minister.
這位工黨領袖正在努力讓選民及其一些同僚（更不用說還挺像那麽廻事的首相本人）相信，他實際上是在野黨中的傀儡領袖。 - How could a country with such crumbling infrastructure and untested political institutions do well under a figurehead?
ECONOMIST: Letters
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词组短语
- figurehead d 名譽領袖;名義領袖;裝飾船頭的人像;傀儡
- Figurehead Upgrade 船首相陞級
- LOVE FIGUREHEAD 巫啓賢
- Popular Figurehead 公衆名譽領袖
- figurehead role 名義領袖
短語
英英字典
- (PERSON) someone who has the position of leader in an organization but who has no real power
- (MODEL) a painted model, usually of a person, that in the past was attached to the front of a ship
- If someone is the figurehead of an organization or movement, they are recognized as being its leader, although they have little real power.
- A figurehead is a large wooden model of a person that was put just under the pointed front of a sailing ship in former times.