figurehead
英 [ˈfɪɡəhed]
美 [ˈfɪɡjərhed]
n. 有名无实的领导人; 傀儡; (过去的)艏饰像
复数:figureheads
Collins.1 / BNC.19607 / COCA.21400
牛津词典
noun
- 有名无实的领导人;傀儡
a person who is in a high position in a country or an organization but who has no real power or authority - (过去的)艏饰像
a large wooden statue, usually representing a woman, that used to be fixed to the front end of a ship
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 有名无实的首脑;傀儡
If someone is thefigureheadof an organization or movement, they are recognized as being its leader, although they have little real power.- The President will be little more than a figurehead.
总统将不过是个傀儡而已。
- The President will be little more than a figurehead.
- (旧时的)艏饰像
Afigureheadis a large wooden model of a person that was put just under the pointed front of a sailing ship in former times.
英英释义
noun
- figure on the bow of some sailing vessels
- a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
双语例句
- Acts 28:11 And after it had been three months, we put out to sea in an Alexandrian ship which had wintered in the island, with the twin sons of Zeus for its figurehead.
徒二八11过了三个月,我们上了一只亚力山大的船,这船以丢斯双子为记,是在那岛上过了冬的。 - The Vikings built ships with high bows and a projecting stem bearing a menacing figurehead, similar to the ships of William I the Conqueror as seen in the Bayeux Tapestry.
维京人建造的船只,其船首较高,伸出的船首有着吓人的装饰物,与拜约挂毯上所见到征服者威廉一世的船只类似。 - Typically, an Enterprise Architect is seen as a key figurehead, the bridge between business and IT.
一般,企业架构师被看作是重要的头衔,业务和IT之间的桥梁。 - When I'm at work, I have a figurehead role to live up to and I usually find I can play that particular character very well.
他说:当我工作的时候,我需要扮演一个象征性的领导角色,而我发现,通常我都可以把那个特定的角色扮演得很好。 - Antique Figurehead, possibly of Guangyin.
形似观音古董船首像。 - The union quickly found a figurehead for their campaign, Ke Yunlong, a 29-year-old employee now given the job of selling fresh food in the store.
工会很快为自己的计划物色到了名义上的领袖现年29岁的员工柯云龙,他目前的工作是在晋江店销售生鲜食品。 - The emperor is a figurehead.
那皇帝是有名无实的首脑。 - Under the ancient Constitution of Japan, the Emperor had authority, but the current Constitution, which took effect in1947, gave authority to the people, and the Emperor became a figurehead.
日本的宪法规定,天皇掌握国家主权,1947年公布了新宪法,规定主权归人民所有,天皇只是国家的象征。 - He says bin Laden was not only a figurehead or strategist, as some people had thought.
他说,本。拉登并不是如一些人所认为的那样只是一名傀儡首脑或战略家。 - The president is just a figurehead; it's the party leader who has the real power.
总统仅仅是挂名的首脑,党的领导人才真正握有实权。