figure head

基本解释

As a company chairman, he is only a figure head.
他只是名义上的公司总裁，其实没有实权。
The king of that country is only a figure head without real authority.
那个国家的国王，只是傀儡，没有实权。
He was a figure-head and didn't exercise much power.
他只是一个傀儡，并不掌握多少实权。

Of the few who have been identified, one is an active duty army general accused of being head of the military wing of the conspiracy, and another is an opposition political figure said to be leader of the civilian wing.
There's a second figure here standing ab extra, and that's the moon hovering overhead: "while over-head the Moon / sits Arbitress."
这里有第二个置身事外的角色，就是高高挂在空中的月亮：,“月亮高挂天心，像个公正的决断人“
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OK. So we should be able to figure this out for any orbital that we're discussing, and when we can figure out especially radial nodes, we have a good head start on going ahead and thinking about drawing radial probability distributions.
我们可以将这种方法,用于任何轨道，当我们可以算出有多少个径向节点的时候，我们就为画出径向概率分布,开了个好头。
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Here was the Goldman Sachs president defending a leading political figure, the head of the European Central Bank for stabilizing European markets and the economy.
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If someone is the figurehead of an organization or movement, they are recognized as being its leader, although they have little real power.
A figurehead is a large wooden model of a person that was put just under the pointed front of a sailing ship in former times.