figurehead的意思

figurehead

英式音标['fɪgjɚ'hɛd]
美式英标['fɪgəhed]

基本解释

n. 破浪神；有名无实的领袖；装饰船头的人像

figurehead 傀儡

figure, 雕像，象征。head,首领。

figurehead (n.): also figure-head, 1765, from figure (n.) + head (n.). The ornament on the projecting part of the head of a ship, immediately under the bowsprit; sense of "leader without real authority" is first attested 1868.
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]

5. Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead.: 否则米勒就会变成可有可无的傀儡.