front man
英 [frʌnt mæn]
美 [frʌnt mæn]
n. (尤指名声不佳或不受欢迎的团体或组织的)代言人,头面人物,名誉代表
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指名声不佳或不受欢迎的团体或组织的)代言人,头面人物,名誉代表
If you say that someone is afront manfor a group or organization, you mean that their role is to represent and give a good impression of it to the public, especially when it is not very respectable or popular.- Tremaine is the company's front man in Washington.
特里梅因是公司在华盛顿的名誉代表。
- Tremaine is the company's front man in Washington.
英英释义
noun
- a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
双语例句
- Although they had a string of drummers, the drummer that stayed with the band longest was Dave Grohl, now the front man of another super rock band, the Foo Fighters.
他们曾频频更换鼓手,其中与乐队共事最久的鼓手是戴夫·格罗尔,他现在在另一支超级摇滚乐队&喷火战机乐队担任主唱。 - He is the front man for a criminal gang.
他为一个犯罪集团作掩护。 - After it becomes apparent to the middle man that the back man can't figure out what he's wearing, he knows that there is at least one black hat worn by himself and the front man.
中间那个人见最后那个人不能猜出自己帽子的颜色,就知道在自己和自己前面的人中至少有一个帽子的颜色是黑色的。 - He's a front man for the mafia.
他是黑手党的负责人。 - One school sees him as the leading cheerleader for Toyota Motor ( TM), a laughing and smiling front man for a company that has been struggling more than usual the past few years.
有些人将他视为丰田汽车(ToyotaMotor)的啦啦队长,在过去几年间负责代表这家深陷困境的企业抛头露面,对公众笑脸相迎。 - But can we speak so bluntly in front of the poor man!
但我们似乎不要在他面前说实话! - He has been an early exponent of other imported ideas: last year he was the front man for the Russian version of the reality television show, "the apprentice".
他是其他舶来品的早期拥护者:去年他就是俄罗斯版电视真人秀《学徒》的负责人。 - Now he is in front of the young man.
很快便超过了年轻人。 - Oh, it was such an exquisite and lucky moment in my life to be sitting right in front of this man.
喔,能坐在这个男人的正前方,真是我这辈子的幸运时刻。 - He stumbled over and set a glass down in front of the man.
他跌跌撞撞地走到那个人面前,递给他一个杯子。