第三人称复数：paper tigers
名词纸老虎，外强中干
1. 纸老虎,外强中干的人：Paper over the cracks 搁置争议 | *Paper tiger 纸老虎,外强中干的人 | Par for the course 意料之中
2. (指人、国家或局势)纸老虎,外强中干：the rat race激烈的竞争 | paper tiger(指人、国家或局势)纸老虎,外强中干 | a snake in the grass潜伏的敌人,阴险的人,虚假的人
3. 纸：have a tiger by the tail/ He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 骑虎难下 | paper tiger 纸** | to brag and bully by assuming other people's authority 狐假虎威
1. 911查询·英语单词
1. 纸老虎；外强中干者
If you say that an institution, a country, or a person is a paper tiger, you mean that although they seem powerful they do not really have any power.
1. paper tiger
1. Chen would be grossly miscalculating if he thought China was a paper tiger, he said.
2. 911查询·英语单词
2. This has prompted a renewed public anxiety in seeking truth about the " paper tiger " mystery.
3. " I am going to the States to see the'paper tiger', " Meng joked.
4. History proves that the Unites States is " a paper tiger " when it comes to defending its allies.
5. paper tiger
5. The paper said the Army's investigation of Tiger Force found 27 soldiers who said the severing of ears from dead Vietnamese was an accepted practice.
6. The paper quoted the provincial Forestry Bureau as saying there was no evidence the tiger was the last one in China.
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7. The celebrity fallout was dubbed the " first war in the Year of the Tiger " by a Shanghai paper.
noun
1. the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual
e.g. he reminded Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth