rotten borough

基本解釋

Oddly, though, the shareholders in American companies are like the disenfranchised citizens of a rotten borough.
然而奇怪的是，美國公司的眾股東卻像是有名無實選區(qū)里被剝奪了投票權(quán)的居民。
The puritans, he says, forget that Las Vegas's economy relies on another kind of vice: "To many people, it's just a rotten borough anyway.
他說，清教徒們忘記了拉斯維加斯的經(jīng)濟得依賴另外一種惡習(xí)：”對很多人而言，這里只是一個爛地方。
IN AMERICA you can usually count on people to stand up for their rights. Oddly, though, the shareholders in American companies are like the disenfranchised citizens of a rotten borough.
在美國，你經(jīng)?？梢钥吹饺藗?yōu)榱司S護(hù)自身權(quán)利挺身而出。然而奇怪的是，美國公司的眾股東卻像是有名無實選區(qū)里被剝奪了投票權(quán)的居民。
This is more the politics of 18th-century English rotten boroughs than a mature modern democracy, though there were a few suitably modern touches this year.
與其說它是現(xiàn)代成熟的民主，還不如說是18世紀(jì)英國的“腐敗選區(qū)”。今年即使增添了一些現(xiàn)代氣息，也還是無濟于事。
He struck off the rotten branches with an axe.
他用斧頭砍掉了朽爛的樹枝。

(before the Reform Act of 1832) any of certain English parliamentary constituencies with only a very few electors (1832) &rarrcompare pocket borough