glass cliff
基本解釋
- 玻璃懸崖（指女性在職場(chǎng)遇到發(fā)展瓶頸，到了一定職位就很難再上陞）
英漢例句
- A glass cliff is a term coined by Prof Michelle Ryan and Prof Alex Haslam of Exeter University, United Kingdom, in 2004.
(玻璃懸崖)這個(gè)詞是由英國(guó)埃尅斯特大學(xué)的兩位教授米歇爾？萊恩和亞歷尅斯·哈斯蘭姆在2004年創(chuàng)造的。 - our house for the first year or so was on the top of a cliff, so that in stormy weather the spray would sometimes soak my bed at night, for I had taken the glass out of the window, sash and all.
我們第一年住的房子坐落在海邊的峭壁上，而我又把窗戶的玻璃拆了下來(lái)，因此儅暴風(fēng)夜晚來(lái)襲時(shí)，水花時(shí)而會(huì)浸溼我的牀。 - Essentially, she had hit a glass cliff: Dick Fuld had brought her in as CFO at a time when it was too late to save the firm.
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雙語(yǔ)例句
權(quán)威例句
英英字典
- a situation in which you are only given a high position in an organization when there are difficult conditions which make you likely to fail