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

• 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。
• I am a lame duck.
  我是只跛鸭子。
• The President nominated a lame duck to head the commission.
  总统提名一个即将卸任的官员担任委员会负责人。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
  听着，我可不像你手下的那些废物。
• Last week, Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, announced he would not seek re-election next November, recasting himself as a lame duck who will do whatever the banks want.
  上周，参议院银行委员会主席克里斯多德（chrisdodd）宣布，他不会在11月寻求连任，表明他是即将卸任、无心作为的官员，银行让他做任何事都会照办。