单词hot seat
na.: 尴尬处境；〈美俚〉电椅
网络: 飞机弹射椅；坐针毡
责任重大的位置:
if sb isin the hot seat , they have to take responsibility for important or difficult decisions and actions
尴尬处境
〔美俚〕电椅
This game intends to put you into the hot-seat of an air traffic controller.
AirTrafficController这个游戏旨于将你放置到飞机交通控制器的位置上。
I thought it would be fun to be a judge of the game. But finally I found I was on the hot seat. Both sides said that they won.
我本以为给这场游戏当裁判很有意思，但是最后我发现我处在了很尴尬的境地。双方都认定他们才是赢的那一方。
At least he didn"t ask you to interpret. You"d really be in the hot seat trying to interpret in a meeting or over the phone.
幸好他没有让你去口译。要是让你在会议上或者电话上进行口译，那才叫难堪呢。
Many a man has controlled a murderous rage when he thought of the hot seat.
许多人一想到电椅就压住了想杀人的怒火。
She has been the woman in the hot seat during the last two difficult years when the company was swamped in a financial crisis.
在公司深陷财政危机的两年时间里，她一直是坐镇面对棘手问题的女性。
Some people always seems to be in the hot seat.
有些人好像总是身处逆境。
He has lots of plans for a turnround but already his old hot seat at Boeing, where he was chief executive, must be looking like a sinecure.
穆拉利拥有大量扭转困境的方案，但与现在相比，他过去在波音（Boeing）如坐针毡的首席执行官职位，肯定算是薪酬丰厚的闲职了。
If only he had a talent of his own, such as Numbo"s hot seat, he could make the joker sorry regardless of the wall.
如果他有自己的魔法，就像南波的“热椅子”，即使有透明墙在，他也可以让他们好看。
I hoped Rupert Murdoch might use his day in the parliamentary hot seat to make this point.
我希望默多克能利用他在国会陷于困境之际证明这个论点。
Purdue University, in Indiana, developed its own backchannel system, Hot Seat, two years ago, at a cost of $84, 000.
印第安纳州的普杜大学在两年前就花费了8.4万美元发展出了自己的主频道系统——热座位（HotSeat）。