glass cliff
基本解释
- 玻璃悬崖（指女性在职场遇到发展瓶颈，到了一定职位就很难再上升）
同根派生
英汉例句
- A glass cliff is a term coined by Prof Michelle Ryan and Prof Alex Haslam of Exeter University, United Kingdom, in 2004.
(玻璃悬崖)这个词是由英国埃克斯特大学的两位教授米歇尔？莱恩和亚历克斯·哈斯兰姆在2004年创造的。 - our house for the first year or so was on the top of a cliff, so that in stormy weather the spray would sometimes soak my bed at night, for I had taken the glass out of the window, sash and all.
我们第一年住的房子坐落在海边的峭壁上，而我又把窗户的玻璃拆了下来，因此当暴风夜晚来袭时，水花时而会浸湿我的床。 - Essentially, she had hit a glass cliff: Dick Fuld had brought her in as CFO at a time when it was too late to save the firm.
FORBES: How Women Executives Who Leave Their Roles Affect the Next Generation of Women Leaders - On a cliff-top site with a massive curved glass wall—and built with slate floors, white walls and views which beautifully frame the surf, the fishermen's cottages and a distant lighthouse—the gallery is a powerful work of art in its own right.
ECONOMIST: Surfing the galleries
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- a situation in which you are only given a high position in an organization when there are difficult conditions which make you likely to fail