徒有其表

Is most important in this world It fatal to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

世间最重要的是有进取心，但徒有其表是致命的。

Brummagem England was toppling already and her downfall would be Ireland, her Achilles heel, which he explained to them about the vulnerable point of Achilles, the Greek hero, a point his auditors at once seized as he completely gripped their attention by showing the tendon referred to on his boot.

英国徒有其表，已经摇摇欲坠了，最后会崩溃在爱尔兰手里。爱尔兰将是它的'阿戏留的脚踵'。他又就希腊英雄阿戏留那易受伤害的部位为他们做了一番解释。由于他隔着靴子指了指腱在哪儿，就完全吸引了听众的注意，从而大家也立即恍然大悟了。

It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.

世间最重要的是有进取心，但徒有其表是致命的。

So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。

But let me tell you what. He is only the Apple of Sodom..

我告诉你吧，他只不过徒有其表而已。

The sofa he bought yesterday was found to be an apple of Sodom.

结果发现他昨天买来的沙发是徒有其表的废物。

A specious thing has no life of art.

一件徒有其表的东西是没有艺术生命力的。

But in recent years it has descended into empty theatrics.

但近年来这一制度已经下降得徒有其表。

I live fast,I live a lie.

我放纵虚伪，我徒有其表。

They have fallen into a surface display of romance, perpetrated by the myths of an advertising age.

他们受目前广告时代虚幻宣传的影响，已满足于追求徒有其表的&浪漫秀&。

With Death guitarist Schuldiner adopting vocal duties, the band made a major impact on the scene.

随着死亡的吉他手Schuldiner接受主唱的职务，乐队在现实中树立了重要的影响。

But he could still end up breakfasting on Swiss-government issue muesli because all six are accused of nicking around 45 million pounds they should have paid to FIFA.

不过他最后仍有可能沦为瑞士政府&议事餐桌&上的一道早餐，因为这所有六个人都被指控把本应支付给国际足联的大约4500万英镑骗了个精光。