hot seat

noun

1. 责任重大的位置
   if sb is in the hot seat , they have to take responsibility for important or difficult decisions and actions

1. PHRASE 身负重任;挑大梁
   If you are in the hot seat, you are responsible for making important and difficult decisions.
   1. He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
      他将继续留在公司总经理这个不好坐的位子上。

1. He is to remain in the hot seat as chief executive.
   他将继续留在公司总经理这个不好坐的位子上。
2. EXAMPLE: The boastful engineer promised his boss he could solve any problem, but now that there are several problems facing him, he's in the hot seat, and he must solve them or be fired.
   这位爱夸耀的工程师向老板承诺，他能解决所有问题，但现在，他正面临几个严重问题，倍感压力。他必须解决这些问题，否则会被炒鱿鱼。
3. When testifies before Congress, he will be in the hot seat.
   在国会作证的时候，他将面临巨大的压力。
4. He has resigned from his job because he has been in the hot seat for years.
   由于不堪多年的工作压力，他终于辞职了。
5. On the business front, IT executives are frequently in the hot seat when it comes to justifying their budgets.
   在业务上，当涉及到说明自己预算合理性时，IT执行人员往往处于尴尬的位置。
6. The more you say things out loud, such as why you're an ideal fit for a position, the more comfortable you'll be reciting that information when you're in the hot seat.
   你说的声音越大，例如为什么我适合这个职位之类，你越能自如的背诵出你符合这个职位的信息。
7. After stepping down this summer as the head of the EPA, the embattled Christine Todd Whitman is once again in the hot seat.
   作为美国环保署署长的克里斯蒂娜·托德·惠特曼今年夏天辞职以后，受到抨击的她又一次麻烦缠身。
8. Martha was in the hot seat because she had to lay off half of her employees.
   玛莎的处境尴尬，因为她必须解雇半数的员工。
9. NEW YORK ( AP)-It's China's turn on the climate hot seat.
   纽约（美联社）&在气候问题上中国该处于尴尬的困境。
10. Make it hot for him; in the hot seat; in hot water.
    使之对他有害的；处于尴尬的处境；在困境中。
11. Many a man has controlled a murderous rage when he thought of the hot seat.
    许多人一想到电椅就压住了想杀人的怒火。
12. You may find yourself sitting in a hot seat if you change your mind.
    如果你改变主意，将置自己于尴尬的处境中。
13. On the hot seat, Geithner has a lot personally tied to the success of the new program.
    处于这一尴尬境地，Geithner个人的成败也在很大程度上与这项新计划联系在一起。
14. I'll be in the hot seat when the boss finds out what went wrong.
    要是老板发现出了什么差错，我将会招致麻烦的。
15. This article focuses on the minor matters that job seekers often overlook before they sit down in the interview hot seat.
    本文将集中讲述那些常常被求职者忽视的细节。
16. Other candidates have alluded to financial hardships while in the hot seat, and one person even distributed bound copies of documents describing projects he completed for past employers.
    还有一些应聘者在面试时暗示自己经济上遇到麻烦，一位应聘者甚至将过去做过的项目编印成册进行分发。
17. Eric was really in the hot seat after his mother caught him lying to her.
    艾利克被他妈妈发现他说谎之后，麻烦真是大了。
18. If you lie to your teacher, you will be in the hot seat.
    如果你对你的老师撒谎，你会有麻烦的。
19. No wonder the usually chirpy Mr Blankfein looked so drained by the time he was let go, after almost four hours in the hot seat.
    四个小时的审讯对于贝兰克费恩简直就是如坐针毡，难怪平时能言善辩的他到最后只能垂头撒气的离开。
20. I was in the hot seat for about an hour, but they didn't learn anything from me.
    我被审问了一小时左右，可是他们没有从我这里得到任何东西。
21. The politician will be in the hot seat on television tonight; he will have to answer some unpleasant questions.
    这位政治家在今晚的电视上将会处于尴尬的场面；他将必须回答些不愉快的问题。
22. President Clinton has been in the hot seat a lot lately.
    克林顿总统最近一直处在需做出许多重大决定的艰难局面。
23. He has lots of plans for a turnround but already his old hot seat at Boeing, where he was chief executive, must be looking like a sinecure.
    穆拉利拥有大量扭转困境的方案，但与现在相比，他过去在波音（boeing）如坐针毡的首席执行官职位，肯定算是薪酬丰厚的闲职了。
24. High Integrity Shutoff gate valves can be used for hot tapping or in pipeline services where a soft pig is used if the seat ring installation lugs are removed.
    高度完全关闭闸阀可以用在热水龙头，或拆卸阀座环安装吊耳后，用在采用软铁块的管路中。
25. Tony Blair his friend and erstwhile boss, who takes the hot seat soon will have bee watching n anxiously.
    作为他的朋友和过去的老板托尼布莱尔（TonyBlair），不久将如坐针毡，并将一直焦急地关注此事。

noun

1. a difficult position where you are subjected to stress and criticism

2. an instrument of execution by electrocution
   1. the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair

   Synonym:    electric chairchairdeath chair