hot seat
英 [hɒt siːt]
美 [hɑːt siːt]
n. 责任重大的位置
牛津词典
noun
- 责任重大的位置
if sb is in the hot seat , they have to take responsibility for important or difficult decisions and actions
柯林斯词典
- PHRASE 身负重任;挑大梁
If you arein the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions.- He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
他将继续留在公司总经理这个不好坐的位子上。
- He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
英英释义
noun
- a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism
- an instrument of execution by electrocution
- the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair
双语例句
- I was in the hot seat for about an hour, but they didn't learn anything from me.
我被审问了一小时左右，可是他们没有从我这里得到任何东西。 - 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。 - NEW YORK ( AP)-It's China's turn on the climate hot seat.
纽约（美联社）&在气候问题上中国该处于尴尬的困境。 - I'll be in the hot seat when the boss finds out what went wrong.
要是老板发现出了什么差错，我将会招致麻烦的。 - Other candidates have alluded to financial hardships while in the hot seat, and one person even distributed bound copies of documents describing projects he completed for past employers.
还有一些应聘者在面试时暗示自己经济上遇到麻烦，一位应聘者甚至将过去做过的项目编印成册进行分发。 - EXAMPLE: The boastful engineer promised his boss he could solve any problem, but now that there are several problems facing him, he's in the hot seat, and he must solve them or be fired.
这位爱夸耀的工程师向老板承诺，他能解决所有问题，但现在，他正面临几个严重问题，倍感压力。他必须解决这些问题，否则会被炒鱿鱼。 - This article focuses on the minor matters that job seekers often overlook before they sit down in the interview hot seat.
本文将集中讲述那些常常被求职者忽视的细节。 - You may find yourself sitting in a hot seat if you change your mind.
如果你改变主意，将置自己于尴尬的处境中。 - He has resigned from his job because he has been in the hot seat for years.
由于不堪多年的工作压力，他终于辞职了。 - 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。