lame duck
英 [ˌleɪm ˈdʌk]
美 [ˌleɪm ˈdʌk]
n. 不太成功而需要帮助的人(或机构); “跛足鸭”; (不能继续连任的)即将届满卸任的从政者(或政府); “跛脚鸭”
牛津词典
noun
- 不太成功而需要帮助的人(或机构);“跛足鸭”
a person or an organization that is not very successful and that needs help - (不能继续连任的)即将届满卸任的从政者(或政府);“跛脚鸭”
a politician or government whose period of office will soon end and who will not be elected again- a lame-duck president/administration
跛脚鸭总统 / 政府
- a lame-duck president/administration
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 不中用的人(或物);废物;草包
If you describe someone or something as alame duck, you are critical of them because they are not successful and need to be helped a lot.- Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
听着,我可不像你手下的那些废物。 - ...lame-duck industries.
前景黯淡的行业
- Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
- N-COUNT (因任期将满等)无实权的官员(或政府)
If you refer to a politician or a government as alame duck, you mean that they have little real power, for example because their period of office is coming to an end.- He must recognise by now that he will be a one-term, increasingly lame duck president.
他现在应该已经明白,自己这个总统一任就会下台,而且权力将越来越小。 - ...a lame duck government.
即将届满卸任的无实权政府
- He must recognise by now that he will be a one-term, increasingly lame duck president.
英英释义
noun
- an elected official still in office but not slated to continue
双语例句
- A lame duck manager cannot bring his business back on to the normal track.
一个无能的经理无法把他的企业重新拉回正常经营轨道上去。 - He is a lame duck manager who cannot even set clear goals for his team.
他是一个无能的经理,居然无法为他的团队设立明确的奋斗目标。 - It made him lame duck six months into a presidency won by the second largest plurality in American history.
以美国有史以来第二位的最大多数票赢得的总统职务,他干了六个月就落得名存实亡了。 - No foreign policy decision can be make because of the lame duck presidency
因为重新当选无望的总统管辖,无法决定对外政策 - It may be a good start to a process of global economic reform but as long as a lame duck is dealing for the U.S., major changes aren't in the cards.
此次峰会或许是全球经济改革进程的良好开端,但考虑到美国政府正处在新旧交替的时期,短期内不会出现任何重大变革。 - In short, there are two plausible results from gridlock in the post-election "lame duck" Congress: either a recession or the risk of market trouble.
简言之,大选结束后,国会议员即将届满离任,如果在此期间出现僵局,可能产生两种后果:要么陷入衰退,要么导致市场动荡。 - There is no higher national security priority for the lame duck session of Congress.
在国会调整时期,没有比这更加重要的安全问题。 - Perhaps the way will be cleared for legislative proposals during the lame duck session after the election.
或许中期选举过后在跛脚鸭国会期间通过立法建议。 - Mr Singh, 78, has pleaded on national television that he is not a lame duck prime minister.
现年78岁的辛格已在全国性电视上做出申辩,称自己不是一位无能的总理。 - When he failed the exam, he thought he was really a lame duck.
考试失败后,他感觉自己真是个无用的人。