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
- The President will be little more than a figurehead.
总统将不过是个傀儡而已。 - The party's president has become merely a figurehead.
党主席已变成为仅仅是一个傀儡人物了。 - He described the pressures of being the figurehead of such a big and influential game as too much for him to bear.
据他形容，在这样一个富有影响力的大作中担当名义领袖，其压力超过了他能承受的范围。 - As the spokemen and figurehead, he has special access to the press, statio and tv, which he fully uses to accomplish his aim.
作为州的发言人和象征，他有很多机会接触到报纸、无线电台和电视台，并且充分利用这些来达到他自己的目的。 - The emperor is a figurehead.
那皇帝是有名无实的首脑。 - She is a kind of national figurehead, an Entertainer in Chief; she is Americana.
她是一种国家领袖，是娱乐圈的老大；她是典型的美国事物。 - Then the nominal head of state was the emperor, though in reality he was little more than a figurehead.
那时，名义上的国家元首是天皇，尽管实际上他不过是一个傀儡。 - 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。 - He found Penny on the forecastle, where he had so often found Ser Jorah, standing by the rail beside the cog's hideous half-rotted figurehead and gazing out across the inky sea.
他发现佩妮在前船楼上乔拉爵士平常逗留的地方，倚在那个丑陋的半腐烂的船首像边的栏杆上，眺望着漆黑的海。 - 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。