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？
• 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。
• 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。
• He could see only the hazy outline of the goalposts.
  他只能看见球门柱模糊的轮廓。
• 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。
• Between the opposite team's goalposts.
  在对方球队的门柱之间。
• 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。
• 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。
• Goalposts were roughly chalked out on the playground wall.
  操场的墙上已经标出了球门柱的轮廓。
• 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。