figurehead
音标发音
- 英式音标 ['fiɡəhed'fɪgəhed]
- 美式音标 [ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.hed]
- 国际音标 ['fiɡəhed]
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- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 破浪神；有名无实的领袖；装饰船头的人像
英汉例句
- The Nepali Congress party, which led the interim coalition government, wants a figurehead president.
领导临时联合政府的尼泊尔大会党则希望设立一个傀儡总统。 - At 81 he could only be a figurehead or "caretaker" director-general say diplomats, who also point to a rigorous Egyptian campaign against him.
外交人士说，81岁的他只能成为一个有名无实的或者“临时代理的”总干事， 他们还指出，埃及坚决反对他参选。 - 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.
这位工党领袖正在努力让选民及其一些同僚（更不用说还挺像那么回事的首相本人）相信，他实际上是在野党中的傀儡领袖。 - How could a country with such crumbling infrastructure and untested political institutions do well under a figurehead?
ECONOMIST: Letters
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- figurehead d 名誉领袖;名义领袖;装饰船头的人像;傀儡
- Figurehead Upgrade 船首相升级
- LOVE FIGUREHEAD 巫启贤
- Popular Figurehead 公众名誉领袖
- figurehead role 名义领袖
短语
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.