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

• 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。
• 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？
• The soldiers used sticks of wood, their caps and steel helmets as goalposts.
  士兵们用木棍、帽子、钢盔来做门柱。
• 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. circular-passage gaslift string
  在对方球队的门柱之间。环形空间出油气举管柱
• 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。
• 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。
• To avoid this trap, insist that your adviser name the market benchmark he thinks the fund should be measured against-and then monitor whether he ends up moving the goalposts later.
  为了避开这种陷阱，请坚持让你的投资顾问指明他认为应该拿来衡量基金表现的市场基准，并于日后观察他最后是否改变了参照标准。
• 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。