| 词汇 | glass-cliff |
| 释义 | glass cliff noun[ Cusually singular ] uk /ˌɡlɑːs ˈklɪf/ us /ˌɡlæs ˈklɪf/ 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: 玻璃悬崖 Women were often left teetering on a glass cliff after being handed impossible jobs. 女性在被分配到不可能完成的工作后，往往犹如在玻璃悬崖上徘徊。 This lack of support for women and minorities is central to the glass cliff phenomenon.缺乏对妇女和少数民族的支持是玻璃悬崖现象的核心。 The glass cliff can hinder women in business. Beware the glass cliff - you'll get a lofty promotion, but failure will be guaranteed. Businesses need to have policies to stop people from falling over the glass cliff. Promoting staff aggrandizement anointment ascend ascension career ladder downgrade someone/something to something elevate elevation enthrone exalt fast track promote promotion reinstall reinstallation relegate secondment subordinate wilderness wilderness yearsidiom Examples of glass cliffglass cliff This is the phenomenon dubbed the "glasscliff": women are brought into top management roles just as things get bad in order to clean up the mess. From ThinkProgress He found this glasscliff and told about it then--and everybody said he was a liar. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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