consolation prize

单词consolation prize

基本解释

na.: (给落选人的)安慰奖
网络: 鼓励奖；安慰奖或精神奖；安慰赛

权威解释

• 安慰奖；鼓励奖:

  a small prize given to sb who has not won a competition

英汉解释

• 安慰赛

• (给落选人的)安慰奖,副奖

例句

• I thought that after coming second in so many of his subjects, Charlie ought to have been given a consolation prize at least.

  我认为查理的成绩在这么多课程中均名列第二，他至少应该得到一个安慰奖。

• American officials are trying to find a consolation prize for Bulgaria, the runner-up, which says it would like a base too.

  作为“亚军”和“后来者”的保加利亚，也想讨个军事基地，美国只好尽量给它颁个“安慰奖”了。

• I can"t help feeling like it"s some sort of consolation prize for not letting me in his life.

  我总觉得这像是某种补偿，意在奖励我没有介入他的生活。

• Vice presidents , they note , often get a window seat at their bullpen desks, a sort of consolation prize for having lost an office .

  他们说，作为对失去办公室的一种补偿，副总裁们在大办公间的办公桌往往还能靠窗。

• The move was interpreted by some analysts as a consolation prize for Israel after Bush told Olmert of his opposition to an attack on Iran.

  此举被认为是布什反对奥尔默特攻打伊朗后对以色列的安慰措施。

• As a consolation prize he became the chairman of Gazprom, the company he had created.

  作为一个安慰，他成为了他创办的俄罗斯天然气工业公司董事长。

• Some americans once gave familiar manual product "award" , in the huge motor roar, become better than nothing "consolation prize" .

  一些曾经令国人耳熟能详的手工品“金奖”，在巨大的马达轰鸣声中，变成聊胜于无的“安慰奖”。

• An anonymous benefactor stepped in to provide the money of the consolation prize.

  一个匿名的捐献者站了出来，为安慰奖提供了奖金。

• Before I left the contest, I gave Linda my Star Trek cardboard cutout as a consolation prize .

  在我离开竞赛现场之前，我把我的《星际迷航》纸板的边角料作为安慰奖送给了琳达。

• Hence in this game you could win a consolation prize even if you lost the main event.

  因此，在这个游戏中你可以赢得一个安慰奖，即使你失去了主要活动。