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others see them as figureheads, little more than mascots.

另外的狼人把他们当成象征性的首脑，就和吉祥物没什么差别。

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this makes it difficult for japanese bosses to be leaders rather than just figureheads.

这就使得日本的老板们要想成为真正的领导者而不仅仅只是傀儡这一愿望变得难以实现。

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japanese chief executives are often figureheads, while real (but informal) power resides elsewhere, perhaps with the chairman.

日本的公司总经理通常都是傀儡，而真正掌握实权的隐匿在幕后，可能与董事长有关。

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they are often mere figureheads who serve for a short time before handing the baton to other old company hands.

他们通常并不掌握实权，在担任管理者短时间后就要将指挥棒交到其他为公司服务多年的员工手中。

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if city-dwellers believe that mayors will be costly figureheads, they are likely to vote against them.

如果市民认为市长们只会成为昂贵的傀儡，那么他们很可能投票反对这些市长。

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A carved figure on the prow of a ship. I saw the most wonderful figureheads that had all been far over the ocean.

船头雕饰在船头的雕刻图象我看到了最最漂亮的船头雕饰，这些船都出过远洋。

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every period of market madness, whether up or down, has its figureheads.

无论是上涨还是下跌，每一段市场疯狂期都有其代表人物。

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I saw the most wonderful figureheads that had all been far over the ocean.

我看到了最最漂亮的船头雕饰,这些船都出过远洋.

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in truth, they were never more than figureheads for a movement whose demands for constitutional change exceeded their own more modest aims;

事实上，他们仅是反抗运动的傀儡而已，而该运动要求宪法改革超过了他们本身更缓和的意愿；

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