paper tiger

汉语翻译

纸老虎

英语解释

名词 paper tiger:

the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual

例句

The managing director has the nominal power but he is a paper tiger and it is his assistant who actually runs the company.总经理名义上有权，可却是一只纸老虎，实际管理着公司的是他的助手。As he pointed out, all reactionaries are paper tiger.正如他所指出的那样，一切反动派都是纸老虎。