broken reed
基本解释
- 不可靠的人
- 压伤的芦苇
英汉例句
- He let me down at the last minute and turned out to be a broken reed.
不过我们仍然有自己的限度，超过这个界限，就是虚伪与 背信弃义 。 - I asked him to speak at the meeting，but he did not even attend；what a broken reed !
我让他在会上发言，他居然没来参加。真是个无可信赖的人。 - Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
看哪，你所倚靠的埃及，是那压伤的苇仗，人若靠这仗，就必刺透他的手。 埃及王法老向一切倚靠他的人，也是这样。