figurehead

• n.波を砕く神；有名な指導者；船の舳先を飾る頭像

フィギュア、彫像、シンボル。

figurehead (n.)

also figure-head, 1765, from figure (n.) + head (n.). The ornament on the projecting part of the head of a ship, immediately under the bowsprit; sense of "leader without real authority" is first attested 1868.

You may say that the king is still head of the State, and that this is a sufficient basis for loyal feeling; certainly, if he were really so, and not a mere ornamented figure-head on the ship of state. [James Hadley, "Essays Philological and Critical," London, 1873]

1. The party 's president had become merely a figurehead .

同党の首脳は有名無実の首脳となった。

2.The President will be little more than a figurehead .

大統領は傀儡にすぎない。

3.The queen of that country is only a figurehead .

その国の女王は有名無実の首脳にすぎない。

4.The emperor is a figurehead .

その皇帝は有名無実の首脳だった。

5.Otherwise Miller would become a dispensable figurehead .

でなければミラーはあってもなくてもいい傀儡になる。