figurehead

• n. 破浪神；有名無實的領袖；裝飾船頭的人像

figure, 雕像，象征。head,首領。

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]

1. The party's president had become merely a figurehead.

該黨的首腦已成了有名無實的首腦.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

2. The President will be little more than a figurehead.

總統將不過是個傀儡而已。

來自辭典例句

3. The queen of that country is only a figurehead.

那個國家的女王隻是個有名無實的首腦.

來自辭典例句

4. The emperor is a figurehead.

那皇帝是有名無實的首腦.

來自辭典例句

5. Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.

否則米勒就會變成可有可無的傀儡.

來自辭典例句