1N-COUNT [oft NOUN n]不中用的人(或物);废物;草包 If you describe someone or something as a lame duck, you are critical of them because they are not successful and need to be helped a lot. 不中用的人(或物);废物;草包 [disapproval]
Look, I'm not one of your lame ducks.
听着,我可不像你手下的那些废物。
...lame-duck industries.
前景黯淡的行业
2N-COUNT [usually NOUN n](因任期将满等)无实权的官员(或政府) If you refer to a politician or a government as a lame duck, you mean that they have little real power, for example because their period of office is coming to an end. (因任期将满等)无实权的官员(或政府)
He must recognise by now that he will be a one-term, increasingly lame duck president.