figurehead是什么意思，figurehead怎么读

figurehead基本信息

figurehead基本信息

读法：英 ["fɪgəhed] 美 ["fɪgjɚ"hɛd]

释义：

n. 破浪神；有名无实的领袖；装饰船头的人像

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英英释义

Noun:

a person used as a cover for some questionable activity

figure on the bow of some sailing vessels

中英词源

figurehead 傀儡

figure, 雕像，象征。head,首领。

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]

词态变化

复数 figureheads;

权威造句

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.

2. The President will be little more than a figurehead.: 总统将不过是个傀儡而已。

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.

4. The emperor is a figurehead.: 那皇帝是有名无实的首脑.

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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近反义词

puppet 木偶

robot 机器人

straw man 稻草人

front 正面

front man 挂名负责人

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