Glass cliff is a senior job or important project, particularly one given to a woman, with a high risk of failure.

“玻璃悬崖”指的是交给女性的一项有很大风险或很可能失败的高级工作或重要项目。

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A glass cliff is a term coined by Prof Michelle Ryan and Prof Alex Haslam of Exeter University, United Kingdom, in 2004.

(玻璃悬崖)这个词是由英国埃克斯特大学的两位教授米歇尔·莱恩和亚历克斯·哈斯兰姆在2004年创造的。

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Our house for the first year or so was on the top of a cliff, so that in stormy weather the spray would sometimes soak my bed at night, for I had taken the glass out of the window, sash and all.

我们第一年住的房子坐落在海边的峭壁上，而我又把窗户的玻璃拆了下来，因此当暴风夜晚来袭时，水花时而会浸湿我的床。

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Essentially, she had hit a glass cliff: Dick Fuld had brought her in as CFO at a time when it was too late to save the firm.

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