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
- 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。 - 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。 - In either case, his presidency would have turned rapidly lame duck.
如果其中任何一种情况发生，奥巴马都会迅速变成跛脚鸭总统。 - Now I'm the hanger-on at these parties-the lame duck.
现在我是依附在这些聚会上-的一个无用的人。 - The governor of our state ended up as a lame duck when he lost the election.
我们的州长只能以失败告终，当他在竞选中失败。 - Perhaps Washington could simply dispatch a lame duck.
也许，美国政府只要派一只跛脚鸭就行了。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - President Obama wants to get together with congressional leaders and talk about what they can do during this lame duck session.
奥巴马总统希望与国会领袖召开会议，讨论一下在这段时间可以做些什么。