n.玩具枪

Anything less than that is like a popgun. 比这规模小的计划就没什么用了。”

Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. 学者应该坚持自己的信仰：气枪的一响不过是啪的一声而已，尽管那些年高者与位高者断定它是世界末日的霹雳。

ONE of the most humbling features of the financial crisis is its ability to humiliate policymakers who, thinking that they have a bazooka in their closet, soon discover that it is a mere popgun. 如今的金融危机有个令人尴尬的特征，那就是他有足够的能力让决策者蒙羞，决策者们本以为自己壁橱里储存的是火箭筒，但很快发现那不过是一支玩具手枪。

The authority can issue what the regulator calls the “popgun” of a public warning, or it can use the “cannon” of a suspension, from which the firm's reputation may never recover. 当权者只能使出被监管者称为“玩具枪”的公开警告处分，或者是被称为“大炮”的停职处分，而受牵连的审计公司永远也无法从中恢复名誉。

Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom 学者应该坚持自己的信仰:气枪的一响不过是啪的一声而已，尽管那些年高者与位高者断定它是世界末日的霹雳。