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

• 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%。
• Between the opposite team's goalposts.
  在对方球队的门柱之间。
• Example: He moved the goalposts after he had been elected to be chairman.
  在他被选举为主席后就改变了选举的规则。
• 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。
• That said, the company admits in offering documents that it has moved the goalposts at least once in estimating what its shares are worth.
  不过，LinkedIn在招股书中承认，公司的股价估算规则已至少作过一次调整。
• The goalposts and crossbars must be white.
  门柱和横杆必须是白色。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The boys chalked out goalposts on the playground wall.
  男孩子们在运动场的墙上用粉笔画上了球门柱。