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 1877, the sport was tamed in Scotland by the addition of goalposts.
  1877年，这项运动在苏格兰被规范化，球门被加上了门柱。
• To avoid this trap, insist that your adviser name the market benchmark he thinks the fund should be measured against-and then monitor whether he ends up moving the goalposts later.
  为了避开这种陷阱，请坚持让你的投资顾问指明他认为应该拿来衡量基金表现的市场基准，并于日后观察他最后是否改变了参照标准。
• The goalposts and crossbars must be white.
  门柱和横杆必须是白色。
• 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。
• 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。
• We'd almost signed the contract when the other guys moved the goalposts and said they wanted more money.
  我们正欲签合同时，那一方的人更改了协议条件，并声言要更多的钱。
• Between the opposite team's goalposts. circular-passage gaslift string
  在对方球队的门柱之间。环形空间出油气举管柱
• They moved the goalposts wider apart.
  他们将球门柱移得距离大一些。
• Between the opposite team's goalposts.
  在对方球队的门柱之间。
• He could see only the hazy outline of the goalposts.
  他只能看见球门柱模糊的轮廓。