lay figure

常见例句

In a government controlled by a foreign force a president is no more than a lay figure.
在一个被外国势力控制的政府里，总统只不过是个傀儡式人物而已。
A lay figure can be placed in any position, or attitude, and clothed in any costume and thus serves as a model for the drapery.
人体模型可以放在任何位置，摆成任何姿势，穿上任何服装，作为服装店的模特儿。
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The realization had come to her slowly; the Queen was a lay figure, lacking even the power to dismiss a maid-of-honour without the King's approval.
她逐渐地意识到；王后是个傀儡，没有国王的同意，她甚至连辞退女仆的权利都没有。

Dr Gallo is a hate figure among Mr Duesberg's lay supporters precisely because he did so much to establish that HIV was the cause of AIDS, which they still deny.
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