英：[ˈfɪɡəhed]
美：[ˈfɪɡjərhed]
figurehead如何读
figurehead是什么意思
n. (名词)
- 傀儡
- 傀儡领袖
- 船头雕饰
- 有名无实的领导人
- 艏饰像
- （破浪神的）雕像
- 装饰船头的人像
- 挂名的首脑
- 破浪神
figurehead自然拼读
fig·ure·head
fIg yr hed
figurehead变形
复数:figureheads
figurehead英英释义
noun
the carved figure on a ship's bow
A wooden figurehead of a sea monster with ears like a lion and a crocodile's jaw was carefully lifted from the sea … by divers bringing up treasures from the wreck of a 15th-century Danish warship.—Ilze Filks
a leader in name only : a head or chief (as of a country or organization) with little or no authoritative power He will not be a mere figurehead, as he intends to play a leading role in upcoming talks for the company's media rights …—Paul Schott
The President is Iceland's Head of State, a ceremonial figurehead much like kings and queens in other Nordic countries and the UK. While they appoint ministers to Iceland's cabinet and their signature is required for parliament-approved legislation to take effect, their political power is limited.—Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir
a person who has commanding authority or influence : leader
He has matured into a fine player first and foremost, of course, but has also developed into the undoubted leader and figurehead of the Celtic squad.—Graeme McGarry
figurehead词源中文解释
“leader without real authority”最早在1868年被证明来源于 figure（n.）和 head（n.），also figure-head，最早见于1765年。
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]
詹姆斯哈德利（James Hadley）在1873年的“语言与批判性论文”（Essays Philological and Critical）中写道，“你可以说国王仍是国家的首领，这足以产生忠诚的感觉。但是，如果他只是国家舰船上装饰的假象，那么这样的忠诚就没有意义了。”
figurehead词源英文解释
The first known use of figurehead was in 1759
figurehead儿童词典英英释义
figure1 of 2noun
numeral sense 1
plural arithmetic sense 2
a good head for figures
price entry 1 sense 1
the shape or outline of something
bodily shape or form especially of a person
something that represents a form especially of a person
a diagram or pictorial illustration
a combination of points, lines, or surfaces in geometry
a circle is a closed plane figure
pattern entry 1 sense 3, design
personality sense 4, personage
figure2 of 2verb
to decorate with a pattern
believe sense 5, decide
figured we might win
to be or appear important
figure in the news
compute sense 1, calculate
figurinenoun
a small carved or molded figure
figureheadnoun
a figure, statue, or bust on the bow of a ship
a person who has the title but not the powers of the head of something
figurehead 例句
1 "The nation holds her in its heart, not just as the figurehead of an institution, but as an individual who has served this country with unerring grace, dignity and decency," he said.
2 “I don’t just want to be a figurehead, or someone used,” she said.
3 Her hull was black and gold, her figurehead a lion with an upraised paw.
4 Always she waited, her eyes straining to make out the figure on the prow, and always, at the sight of those strange, glistening white figureheads, her heart sank.
5 It is here that Kimmel makes a bold proposition: removing Trump as President and installing him as the first King of America, a figurehead who’s far away from political power.
6 The two biggest figureheads in Georgia, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and the Georgian Dream party's billionaire founder Bidzina Ivanishvili are both eager for the bill to pass.
7 The emperor is a figurehead.
那皇帝是有名无实的首脑.
8 Genée became the first president of the Royal Academy of Dance, and her connections to royalty and her popularity with the public made her an excellent figurehead.
9 Huge figureheads jut out at every turn, and ships in bottles fill windowsills.
10 But that could preclude us from understanding the social circumstances that led to someone such as Richard Spencer, a figurehead of the alt-right, attaining a platform in the first place.
11 His value as figurehead was priceless, as Picasso: Peace and Freedom justly highlights, but it may well be that his greatest contribution was financial.
12 Infamously, a figurehead of cinema, Martin Scorsese, has publically stated his disinterest in superhero films.
13 Typically, an Enterprise Architect is seen as a key figurehead, the bridge between business and it.
一般，企业架构师被看作是重要的头衔，业务和IT之间的桥梁。
14 A Sambo figurehead occupies the center of the board and tests them on various touchstones of Black culture: What is the second verse of the Black national anthem?
15 The queen is only a figurehead.
女王只是个首脑.
16 Most in the UK will know him merely as one of the more inescapable figureheads of the urban/electro fusion that has dominated in the pop landscape for the last three years.
17 He survived, and accused New York gangsta rap figurehead Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace of setting up the hit.
18 Mr. Uriarte has “been able to remain a figurehead because his experiences are timeless,” Staff Sergeant Hoffman said.
19 His only other friend, Festus the dragon, had been reduced to a figurehead when his control disk had gotten destroyed on their last adventure.
20 “It’s high time to slow my roll,” Musgraves sings – not exactly the call to arms expected from “a figurehead for a generation overhauling country’s whole approach,” as Rolling Stone recently described her.