Dummy

(noun.) a figure representing the human form.

(noun.) a person who does not talk.

(verb.) make a dummy of; 'dummy up the books that are to be published'.

(adj.) having the appearance of being real but lacking capacity to function; 'a dummy corporation' .

手打:洛葛仙妮

• After a while we took it as a matter of course that the head of a company was an administrative dummy, with a dependence on unofficial power similar to that of Governor Dix on Boss Murphy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Why, it's a dummy, said he. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The stock itself--' Dummies, my dear boy,' said Bob Sawyer; 'half the drawers have nothing in 'em, and the other half don't open. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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