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
- Tony Blair his friend and erstwhile boss, who takes the hot seat soon will have bee watching n anxiously.
作为他的朋友和过去的老板托尼布莱尔（TonyBlair），不久将如坐针毡，并将一直焦急地关注此事。 - After stepping down this summer as the head of the EPA, the embattled Christine Todd Whitman is once again in the hot seat.
作为美国环保署署长的克里斯蒂娜·托德·惠特曼今年夏天辞职以后，受到抨击的她又一次麻烦缠身。 - 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。 - If you lie to your teacher, you will be in the hot seat.
如果你对你的老师撒谎，你会有麻烦的。 - 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。 - 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。 - The politician will be in the hot seat on television tonight; he will have to answer some unpleasant questions.
这位政治家在今晚的电视上将会处于尴尬的场面；他将必须回答些不愉快的问题。 - The more you say things out loud, such as why you're an ideal fit for a position, the more comfortable you'll be reciting that information when you're in the hot seat.
你说的声音越大，例如为什么我适合这个职位之类，你越能自如的背诵出你符合这个职位的信息。 - Make it hot for him; in the hot seat; in hot water.
使之对他有害的；处于尴尬的处境；在困境中。 - 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。