goalposts

英 [ˈgəʊlˌpəʊsts]

美 [ˈgoʊlˌpoʊsts]

n.  球门柱
goalpost的复数

柯林斯词典

• （足球等运动的）球门柱
  Agoalpostis one of the two upright wooden posts that are connected by a crossbar and form the goal in games such as football and rugby.
• PHRASE （为一己私利）改变规则
  If you accuse someone ofmoving the goalposts, you mean that they have changed the rules in a situation or an activity, in order to gain an advantage for themselves and to make things difficult for other people.
  1. They seem to move the goal posts every time I meet the conditions which are required.
     好像每当我达到规定条件时，他们就改变规则。

双语例句

• In a month's time I will be less impressed, but can we really move the goalposts then?
  一个月后，我就没那么兴奋了，但此时我们真的可以改变游戏规则吗？
• Fresh divisions have opened up on the second day of the UN climate talks in Durban as China accused the European Union of shifting the goalposts to make unfair demands on developing countries over a new global climate pact.
  在南非德班举行的联合国气候谈判进入第二天时，一些新的分歧浮出水面。中国指责欧盟改变规则，在新的全球气候协定上对发展中国家提出不公平的要求。
• The soldiers used sticks of wood, their caps and steel helmets as goalposts.
  士兵们用木棍、帽子、钢盔来做门柱。
• Construct a feature vector containing the width of the goalposts, based on SVM recognize goal image.
  关于球门检测，构造了包含球门柱宽度的特征向量，并采用SVM识别球门图像。
• Just before the whistle at the start of the game, I touch each of the goalposts and the crossbar once, he said.
  他说：在比赛哨声吹响之前，我必须摸一下两边的门柱和球门横梁。
• He could see only the hazy outline of the goalposts.
  他只能看见球门柱模糊的轮廓。
• After bowing to political pressure, the Bank of Japan said it would buy potentially unlimited amounts of government bonds and widen the goalposts on inflation to allow prices to rise 2 per cent instead of 1 per cent.
  迫于政治压力，日本央行（boj）表示，它将购买可能是无限量的日本国债，并将通胀率目标从1%上调至2%。
• After Les Sealey helped the manager win his first two trophies at Old Trafford, Schmeichel moved the goalposts when it came to what we expected of a keeper.
  莱斯。希里帮助经理拿到最初的2个冠军后，舒梅切尔成为了每个人想象中的门将。
• One industrial lobbyist denounces it as moving the goalposts in the middle of a match.
  一位行业游说人士批评道，这种做法是在足球赛进行当中挪动球门柱。
• They moved the goalposts wider apart.
  他们将球门柱移得距离大一些。