rotten borough

基本解释

Oddly, though, the shareholders in American companies are like the disenfranchised citizens of a rotten borough.
然而奇怪的是，美國公司的衆股東卻像是有名無實選區裡被剝奪了投票權的居民。
The puritans, he says, forget that Las Vegas's economy relies on another kind of vice: "To many people, it's just a rotten borough anyway.
他說，清教徒們忘記了拉斯維加斯的經濟得依賴另外一種惡習：”對很多人而言，這裡衹是一個爛地方。
IN AMERICA you can usually count on people to stand up for their rights. Oddly, though, the shareholders in American companies are like the disenfranchised citizens of a rotten borough.
在美國，你經常可以看到人們爲了維護自身權利挺身而出。然而奇怪的是，美國公司的衆股東卻像是有名無實選區裡被剝奪了投票權的居民。
This is more the politics of 18th-century English rotten boroughs than a mature modern democracy, though there were a few suitably modern touches this year.
與其說它是現代成熟的民主，還不如說是18世紀英國的“腐敗選區”。今年即使增添了一些現代氣息，也還是無濟於事。
He struck off the rotten branches with an axe.
他用斧頭砍掉了朽爛的樹枝。

(before the Reform Act of 1832) any of certain English parliamentary constituencies with only a very few electors (1832) &rarrcompare pocket borough