figurehead是什么意思？

figurehead

英[ˈfɪgəhed] 美[ˈfɪgjərhed]

• n. 挂名的首脑，傀儡，装饰船头的人像，〈谑〉嘴脸；

复数：figureheads;

例句

• The party’s president had become merely a figurehead. 该党的首脑已成了有名无实的首脑。
• The queen is only a figurehead. 女王只是个首脑.
• King is just a figurehead; it's the president who has the real power. 国王仅仅是挂名的首脑, 总统才真正握有实权.
• The emperor is a figurehead. 那皇帝是有名无实的首脑.
• It was an Alexandrian ship with the figurehead of the twin gods Castor and Pollux. 这船以丢斯双子为记,是在那海岛过了冬的.
• The President will be little more than a figurehead. 总统将不过是个傀儡而已。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  有名无实的首脑;傀儡
  If someone is the figurehead of an organization or movement, they are recognized as being its leader, although they have little real power.
  例句
  The President will be little more than a figurehead. 总统将不过是个傀儡而已。
• N-COUNT
  (旧时的)艏饰像
  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.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  挂名的首脑;傀儡
  The party’s president had become merely a figurehead. 该党的首脑已成了有名无实的首脑。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
  2. figure on the bow of some sailing vessels