figureheads是什么意思？

figureheads

• n. 挂名的首脑，傀儡( figurehead的名词复数 )；

例句

• I saw the most wonderful figureheads that had all been far over the ocean. 我看到了最最漂亮的船头雕饰,这些船都出过远洋.

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.