A man of straw is worth of a woman of gold.

稻草男人抵得上金玉女子。

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He is easily controlled by others so we think he's a man of straw.

他很容易被别人控制，因此我们说他是一个很弱的对手。

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Now, it chanced that an old man sleeping in a hovel on a pallet of straw was, awakened by these cries.

恰好有位老人正在一个窝棚里的茅草床上睡觉，他被这些喊声惊醒了。

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In short, the prime minister seems intent on throwing his personal authority behind an attempt to demolish a man of straw.

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The presidential election there was a farce: Mr Rakhimov bullied what was left of the independent media, then won a two-man fight against a straw candidate who happened to be his own minister of forestry.

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It was similarly discredited and abolished after a series of abuses, the last straw being the beating and death of a young man in a Custody and Repatriation center in Guangzhou in March 2003.

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