每日商务英语 第2期:画饼充饥
pie in the sky画饼充饥
英文释义
A bright and attractive but improbable or unrealistic reward. (NOTE: hyphenated when used as a modifier before a noun)
例句
EXAMPLE: The new company president told the unhappy employees that everything would be fine next year, but they skeptically thought that was just pie in the sky.
这家新公司的总裁对不满的员工说,明年就会一切都好,但员工们质疑这只是画饼充饥。
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