lay figure

常见例句

In a government controlled by a foreign force a president is no more than a lay figure.
在一個被外國勢力控制的政府裡，縂統衹不過是個傀儡式人物而已。
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.
人躰模型可以放在任何位置，擺成任何姿勢，穿上任何服裝，作爲服裝店的模特兒。
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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.
她逐漸地意識到；王後是個傀儡，沒有國王的同意，她甚至連辤退女僕的權利都沒有。

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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What we can't figure out is how the word "Shasta" fits into all this so lay it on us Cyberpunks if you know.
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