每日商务英语 第2期:画饼充饥

pie in the sky画饼充饥

英文释义

A bright and attractive but improbable or unrealistic reward. (NOTE: hyphenated when used as a modifier before a noun)

例句

EXAMPLE: The new company president told the unhappy employees that everything would be fine next year, but they skeptically thought that was just pie in the sky.

这家新公司的总裁对不满的员工说，明年就会一切都好，但员工们质疑这只是画饼充饥。