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

• The goalposts and crossbars must be white.
  门柱和横杆必须是白色。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He could see only the hazy outline of the goalposts.
  他只能看见球门柱模糊的轮廓。
• 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。
• Schalke 04 goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said he has to touch the goalposts before the game starts.
  沙尔克04足球俱乐部的守门员曼努埃尔诺伊尔说，他在比赛开始前必须摸摸球门柱。
• 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。
• 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%。
• 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。