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
- 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。 - 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。 - A North Korea run by Party officials with Mr. Kim as the figurehead may be just as stable as a North Korea run by a Kim.
或许，一个由劳动党官员统治的、以金正恩为名义领袖的朝鲜与金正日统治下的朝鲜一样稳定。 - Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.
否则米勒就会变成可有可无的傀儡。 - He would be no cold-war figurehead against the Kremlin and all its works;
他不是反对克里姆林宫的冷战傀儡，而是十足的俄罗斯爱国主义者。 - 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。 - The Dutch monarch has little political power, but serves mostly as a ceremonial figurehead to represent the nation.
荷兰国王几乎没有政治权力，他主要作为正式场合代表国家的领袖。 - 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。 - 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。