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

• 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。
• 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？
• They moved the goalposts wider apart.
  他们将球门柱移得距离大一些。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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%。
• 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。
• 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。
• Between the opposite team's goalposts. Who's coming in next?
  在对方球队的门柱之间。该谁到叁柱门击球了？
• Between the opposite team's goalposts. circular-passage gaslift string
  在对方球队的门柱之间。环形空间出油气举管柱