stalking-horse

基本解釋

They almost always contain at least one Stalking Horse and software for ad-serving networks.
他們幾乎縂是包含至少一個纏擾馬和軟件的廣告服務網(wǎng)絡。
The stalking horse bid was $175 million for Batavia, Ohio-based maker of injection molding machines, blow molders, extruders, mold components, structural foam machines and industrial fluids.
在跟蹤馬底價爲1。75億巴達維亞，俄亥俄州的制造商的注塑機，吹塑機，擠出機，模具組件，結搆發(fā)泡機和工業(yè)流躰。

As stalking-horse bidders, Apollo and Metropoulos can make the first offer and set a floor.
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Iran's stalking horse will not become the ruler of the largely pro-Western, non-Shi'ite majority country through a violent revolution.
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If you describe a person or thing as a stalking horse, you mean that it is being used to obtain a temporary advantage so that someone can get what they really want.
In politics, a stalking horse is someone who runs against a leader in order to see how strong the opposition is. The stalking horse then withdraws in favour of a stronger challenger.