下台 1.(下舞台或讲台) step down from the stage or platform2.(失去权力, 卸去公职) resign; resign one's right [power]; out of power; fall out of power; leave office; extricate oneself from a position 被赶下台 be driven out of office; be thrown out; 某某下台了 sb. fell; 前内阁在一九八九年下台。 the previous cabinet went out of power in 1989.3.(多用于否定式, 比喻摆脱困境) get out of a predicament or an embarrassing situation 叫他下不了台 put him on the spot; 没法下台 be unable to back down with good grace
The main blot on this worthy record is president thabo mbeki ' s continuing failure , born of a misguided sense of racial and comradely solidarity , to use his authority to help remove the despotic robert mugabe from power in neighbouring zimbabwe 但是在这一系列值得肯定的记录中却存在一个大的瑕疵,那就是当依靠自身威信试图把邻国津巴布韦暴君罗伯特?穆加贝赶下台时,姆贝基总统却遭到了接二连三的失败。