dead duck

英 [ded dʌk]

美 [ded dʌk]

n.  注定要失败的人(或事物)

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 注定要失败的人（或事物）
  If you describe someone or something as adead duck, you are emphasizing that you think they have absolutely no chance of succeeding.
  1. The government is a dead duck.
     这个政府注定要垮台。

英英释义

noun

• something doomed to failure
  1. he finally admitted that the legislation was a dead duck
  2. the idea of another TV channel is now a dead duck
  3. as theories go, that's a dead duck

双语例句

• If you stay here, you're a dead duck.
  你要是待在这儿，肯定会有麻烦的。
• After women obtained the right to vote, the suffragette movement became a dead duck in Britain.
  妇女获得选举权后，鼓吹妇女参政的妇女运动，在英国成了不能再引起人们举趣的问题了。
• The pitiful wolf was convinced by himself that there must be a dead chicken or duck under the ice and couldn't wait to feast himself.
  它想下面一定是一只死鸡或是死鸭，这回可要饱食一顿了。
• A strain of virus, which was suspected to be duck hepatitis virus ( DHV), was isolated from the diseased and dead ducks on the duck farm in Raohe County of Heilongjiang Province.
  从黑龙江省某鸭场疑似鸭病毒性肝炎（DVH）的发病雏鸭肝等组织中分离到1株病毒HDⅠ株。
• The plan is a dead duck: there is no money.
  计划告吹了，因为没有钱。
• His plan to run for the presidency is now a dead duck.
  他竞选总统的计划现在泡汤了。
• I'm not safe there. I'm a dead duck there.
  那里不安全，我无能为力。
• I'm a dead duck if I don't pass my chemistry examination.
  要是没通过化学考试的话，我死定了。
• People don't want to know, peter. it's a dead duck.
  人们是不会想了解的，彼特，这条信息没用。
• You do that and I'm a dead duck.
  你要这么着，我就将死了。