substratum，a titular leader

An angry verbal substratum burned under Charlotte Brontë's "feminine" exterior. Utterance was a necessity for her and for her titular heroine Jane Eyre: "something spoke out of me over which I had no control"

Charlotte Brontë and her heroine Jane Eyre represented a new kind of woman

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“It’s very hard for someone at his age, who has built a company with that much success and with continuing challenges to really walk away,” said David B. Yoffie, a professor at Harvard’s business school. “He will never be a titular leader.” 掛名的領導人

substratum 

 

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音節

 

sub • stra • tum

 

発音

 

sʌ'bstrèitəm

1. [名]（複 -ta 〔-tə〕, ～s）
2. 1 土台，基礎
   • have a substratum of fact
   • 事実に基づいている.
3. 2 下層，基層
   • a substratum of sand
   • 砂の基層.
4. 3 《農業》底土；《生物》底質；《写真》乾板のゼラチン下引き(sub).
5. 4 《言語学》基層（言語）：2つの言語が混ざり合った時に影響を及ぼす側の言語；ケルト語にラテン語が混ざってできたフランス語では，ケルト語が基層言語でラテン語は上層言語. ⇒SUPERSTRATUM
6. 5 [U]《哲学》実体.

titular

ˈtɪtjʊlə/

adjective

1. 1.

   holding or constituting a purely formal position or title without any real authority.

   "the queen is titular head of the Church of England"

   synonyms:

   nominal, in title/name only, formal, official, ceremonial; More
2. 2.

   relating to or denoted by a title.

   "the work's titular song"

   synonyms:

   eponymous, identifying; More

titular. 有名無實的 ；(有)稱號的;(有)頭銜的；標題的

━━ a. 名ばかりの; 肩書のある; 表題［題名］の.