figurehead

英 ['fɪgəhed]美 ['fɪgjɚ'hɛd]
  • n. 破浪神；有名无实的领袖；装饰船头的人像
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中文词源

figurehead 傀儡

figure, 雕像，象征。head,首领。

英文词源

figurehead (n.)
also figure-head, 1765, from figure (n.) + head (n.). The ornament on the projecting part of the head of a ship, immediately under the bowsprit; sense of "leader without real authority" is first attested 1868.
You may say that the king is still head of the State, and that this is a sufficient basis for loyal feeling; certainly, if he were really so, and not a mere ornamented figure-head on the ship of state. [James Hadley, "Essays Philological and Critical," London, 1873]

双语例句

1. The party's president had become merely a figurehead.
该党的首脑已成了有名无实的首脑.
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2. The President will be little more than a figurehead.
总统将不过是个傀儡而已。
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3. The queen of that country is only a figurehead.
那个国家的女王只是个有名无实的首脑.
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4. The emperor is a figurehead.
那皇帝是有名无实的首脑.
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5. Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.
否则米勒就会变成可有可无的傀儡.
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