flag of convenience

常見例句

雙語例句

• However, their ships rarely fly the flag of the home countries, choosing instead “flags of convenience”.
  然而，他們的貨輪卻掛“方便旗”, 而很少懸掛本國(guó)國(guó)旗。
• A commodity such as oil, ivory or fish will be transported on a ship flying a flag of convenience, explains Mr Leggett.
  Leggett解釋說，像石油、象牙或魚類這樣的商品通常會(huì)通過海運(yùn)運(yùn)輸，船上懸掛方便旗。
• Some standards are born of convenience: Indonesia's red and white flag was reputedly created when independence fighters tore the blue strip from the tricolor of their Dutch colonists.
  而有些國(guó)旗的緣由可謂一時(shí)興起所致，印度尼西亞的紅白國(guó)旗據(jù)說是由獨(dú)立戰(zhàn)士們撕下荷蘭三色旗中間的藍(lán)色所形成的。

權(quán)威例句

• It is more like a flag of convenience for a variety of unrelated individuals.
  FORBES: Geek Ethos Wreaks Havoc
• Sinn Fein claimed this was no more than a flag of convenience for loyalist groups, supposedly observing a ceasefire.
  ECONOMIST: Northern Ireland
• When it emerged earlier this year that Tanzania was becoming a flag of convenience for Iran, a number of U.S. lawmakers raised considerable protest.
  FORBES: Iranian Tankers in a Tanzanian Twilight Zone?
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