单词lame-duck
na.: 残废者
n.: 不太成功而需要帮助的人（或机构）；“跛脚鸭”；无能的人
网络: 跛鸭；跛脚鸭会期；妾身未明
不太成功而需要帮助的人（或机构）；“跛脚鸭”:
a person or an organization that is not very successful and that needs help
（不能继续连任的）即将届满卸任的从政者（或政府）；“跛脚鸭”:
a politician or government whose period of office will soon end and who will not be elected again
I"ve made it clear going back over the summer that stopping all of the tax hikes was one of our main priorities for this lame-duck session.
今年夏季的时候我已经说的很清楚，要停止所有赋税增加，这是我们在这次跛脚鸭会议上要优先考虑的事情。
It would be wrong for a lame duck in Washington to tie the hands of the next administration on such matters.
布什这位“跛脚鸭”不能在这些问题上束缚住下届政府的手脚。
He would then be a lame duck for the next three years and America would be a lame power.
随后的三年，奥巴马会成为一个有名无实的总统，而美国的强国地位也将大打折扣。
Moreover, by the time the lame-duck session begins, Republicans are likely to be emboldened by their expected electoral gains.
此外，随着“lame-duck”时期的开始，共和党人可能会因为预期的选举胜利而提高底气。
But he did not specifically pledge a vote during a coming lame-duck session of on offshore drilling controls.
但是，他并没有特别许诺在即将到来的新老议员交替时期，发起关于控制海底钻探的表决案。
It made him lame duck six months into a presidency won by the second largest plurality in American history.
以美国有史以来第二位的最大多数票赢得的总统职务，他干了六个月就落得名存实亡了。
For a lame-duck president not known for gifted oratory, that might be a welcome statistic.
对一位毫无演讲天赋的跛脚鸭总统来说，这或许是个令人欣慰的统计。
Mr Wolfowitz has lost that confidence and will not be able to restore it in the three years remaining in his lame-duck tenure.
沃尔福威茨失去了这种信任，也不可能在残余的三年任期内重新赢得这种信任。
Peter Mandelson may have evoked memories of the Heath era when he insisted that the motor industry was "not a lame duck" .
彼得·曼德尔森或许唤醒了人们对于“荒芜时代”的回忆，当时他坚持称汽车工业并不是“跛鸭子”（无望的）。
In a time of crisis no one wants Mr Trichet to become a lame duck.
在危机时期，没有人想让特里谢因即将卸任而不能有所作为。