front man
英 [frʌnt mæn]
美 [frʌnt mæn]
n. (尤指名声不佳或不受欢迎的团体或组织的)代言人，头面人物，名誉代表
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT (尤指名声不佳或不受欢迎的团体或组织的)代言人，头面人物，名誉代表
If you say that someone is afront manfor a group or organization, you mean that their role is to represent and give a good impression of it to the public, especially when it is not very respectable or popular.- Tremaine is the company's front man in Washington.
特里梅因是公司在华盛顿的名誉代表。
- Tremaine is the company's front man in Washington.
英英释义
noun
- a person used as a cover for some questionable activity
双语例句
- But can we speak so bluntly in front of the poor man!
但我们似乎不要在他面前说实话！ - Oh, it was such an exquisite and lucky moment in my life to be sitting right in front of this man.
喔，能坐在这个男人的正前方，真是我这辈子的幸运时刻。 - They're using him for a front man, just for a while, then the Japanese will take over.
他们利用他充门面，要不了多久，日本人准接过去。 - After it becomes apparent to the middle man that the back man can't figure out what he's wearing, he knows that there is at least one black hat worn by himself and the front man.
中间那个人见最后那个人不能猜出自己帽子的颜色，就知道在自己和自己前面的人中至少有一个帽子的颜色是黑色的。 - They scramble up half-naked to open the door, fight with their trousers down for their turn at the pot, and don't scruple to strip themselves in front of a man, simply turning slightly away.
她们会半裸体地起来开门，拎着裤子争夺马桶，将身体稍稍背转一下就公然在男人面前换衣服。 - Many people stopped in front of the old man and looked at the twenty-five tin soldiers.
很多人在老先生的面前停下来，观赏这廿五个锡制的士兵。 - At Barnsley, Anderson told me to get in front of my man at the near post for a corner, and I managed to head it in.
在巴恩斯利，安德森跟我说球会发到近角，让我甩掉后卫。 - The directors use the public relations manager as a front man to answer any questions from customers.
董事们总是请公关经理来应付顾客们提出的问题。 - He has been an early exponent of other imported ideas: last year he was the front man for the Russian version of the reality television show, "the apprentice".
他是其他舶来品的早期拥护者：去年他就是俄罗斯版电视真人秀《学徒》的负责人。 - I'm just the front man, you know.
我只是挂名的负责人，你知道。