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
  1. a lame-duck president/administration
     跛脚鸭总统 / 政府

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.
  1. Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
     听着，我可不像你手下的那些废物。
  2. ...lame-duck industries.
     前景黯淡的行业
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. ...a lame duck government.
     即将届满卸任的无实权政府

英英释义

noun

• an elected official still in office but not slated to continue

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• Mr Blair has repeatedly refused to announce a timetable for his departure for fear of being rendered a lame duck leader.
  布莱尔曾多次拒绝宣布离任时间表，因为他担心自己被视为一位即将离职的软弱领导人。
• 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。
• We hope our governor will be a lame duck after election day.
  我们希望州长在选举日后落选。
• 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。
• I am a lame duck.
  我是只跛鸭子。
• In a time of crisis no one wants Mr Trichet to become a lame duck.
  在危机时期，没有人想让特里谢因即将卸任而不能有所作为。
• These steps are not dependent on a "grand bargain" by the lame duck Congress or on sweeping reform in early 2013.
  这些举措并不依赖于已成为“跛脚鸭”的国会达成某项“全盘协议”，也不依赖于2013年初的全面改革。
• Chirac had hoped to split the left wing's growing momentum through a referendum and secure the rule of the right for his remaining three years in office and avoid being a lame duck president.
  透过公民投票，席哈克原本期望透过辩论分裂声势日上的左派，以确保在剩下的3年里维持右派的统治，并且避免成为跛鸭总统。