rotten borough

基本解释

Oddly, though, the shareholders in American companies are like the disenfranchised citizens of a rotten borough.
然而奇怪的是，美国公司的众股东却像是有名无实选区里被剥夺了投票权的居民。
The puritans, he says, forget that Las Vegas's economy relies on another kind of vice: "To many people, it's just a rotten borough anyway.
他说，清教徒们忘记了拉斯维加斯的经济得依赖另外一种恶习：”对很多人而言，这里只是一个烂地方。
IN AMERICA you can usually count on people to stand up for their rights. Oddly, though, the shareholders in American companies are like the disenfranchised citizens of a rotten borough.
在美国，你经常可以看到人们为了维护自身权利挺身而出。然而奇怪的是，美国公司的众股东却像是有名无实选区里被剥夺了投票权的居民。
This is more the politics of 18th-century English rotten boroughs than a mature modern democracy, though there were a few suitably modern touches this year.
与其说它是现代成熟的民主，还不如说是18世纪英国的“腐败选区”。今年即使增添了一些现代气息，也还是无济于事。
He struck off the rotten branches with an axe.
他用斧头砍掉了朽烂的树枝。

(before the Reform Act of 1832) any of certain English parliamentary constituencies with only a very few electors (1832) &rarrcompare pocket borough