English translation for "滥竽充数"

[ lànyúchōngshù ] 
pretend to play the yu (a wind instrument) in order to make up the number for an orchestra -- to be included in a group just to fill in a vacancy; act as a stopgap; be dragged in to swell the total; fill a post without real qualifications; hold a post without qualifications; just fill up a vacancy; make up a number without active work; pass oneself off as one of the players in an ensemble -- to be there just to make up the number (used of incompetent people or inferior goods); put in men who cannot work 短语和例子
我不会唱歌, 我在这儿只是滥竽充数。 i am not good at singing. i'm here just to make up the number

Related Translations:

滥竽充数现象:  social loafing

滥竽充数的教师:  a bad teacher hairdresser poet etc

我不会唱歌我在这儿只是滥竽充数:  i am not good at singing. i'm here just to make up the number

Example Sentences:

	1.	I am not good at singing. i 'm here just to make up the number . 我不会唱歌，我在这儿只是滥竽充数。
	2.	And i ' ve been running a charade all these years 这些年我只是滥竽充数
	3.	And i ' ve been running a charade all these years 这些年我只是滥竽充数
	4.	She is a sorry apology for an actor 她是个滥竽充数的演员。
	5.	How does someone like bush get away something like this 像布什这样的人怎么会滥竽充数，蒙混过关的呢？
	6.	She gave me coffee of a kind 她给我喝滥竽充数的咖啡。
	7.	You can also hear people saying it about themselves to show their modesty 人们有时也用“滥竽充数”来表示自谦。
	8.	2 the man you ' ve just mentioned is but a poor apology for a writer . his writings are tedious 你提到的哪个人只是一个滥竽充数的作家，他的作品冗长而乏味的。
	9.	The scientific research personnel who held the post without qualification must be transferred to another post 必须把滥竽充数的科研人员调到其他工作岗位上去。
	10.	The idiom " be there just to make up the number " is used to mock someone who passes for a specialist “滥竽充数”这个成语用来嘲笑那些没有真正才干，混在行家里的人。

Similar Words：

"滥帐方式" English translation, "滥支" English translation, "滥支, 浪费" English translation, "滥作" English translation, "滥作药物" English translation, "滥竽充数的教师" English translation, "滥竽充数现象" English translation, "滥觞" English translation, "琅" English translation, "琅勃拉邦" English translation