汤姆名义上市公司的领导。他儿子做所有重大决策。

Tom is the head of the company in name only. His son makes all the important decisions.

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Sentence Composition

1 汤姆 Tāng Tom (name)
2 名义上 míngshàng nominally
3 shì
  1. market
  2. city
  3. municipality (administrative unit)
  4. (literary) to trade; to buy and sell goods
4 公司 gōng company; firm; corporation

classifier:

=5 de
  1. of; ~'s (possessive particle)
  2. (used after an attribute when it modifies a noun)
  3. (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis)
  4. (used after a noun, verb or adjective to form a nominal expression, as in 皮革的 de "one made of leather" or 跑堂兒的 pǎotángrde "a waiter (literally, one who runs back and forth in a restaurant)" or 新的 xīnde "new one")
  5. also pr. or di in poetry and songs
=5 a taxi; a cab (abbr. for 的士 shì)
=5 really and truly
=5 (bound form) bull's-eye; target
6 领导 lǐngdǎo
  1. lead
  2. leading
  3. to lead
  4. leadership
  5. leader

classifiers: ,

7
  1. (third-person singular) (since the early 20th century, usu. male) he; him; his
  2. (bound form) other; another; some other (as in 他日 and 他人 rén)
=8 儿子 érzi son
=8 儿子 ér
  1. Term of self-address, used by a man when speaking to elders.
  2. baby; infant; newborn
  3. child
9 zuò
  1. to make; to produce
  2. to write; to compose
  3. to do; to engage in; to hold (a party etc)
  4. (of a person) to be (an intermediary, a good student etc); to become (husband and wife, friends etc)
  5. (of a thing) to serve as; to be used for
  6. to assume (an air or manner)
10 所有 suǒyǒu
  1. all
  2. to have; to possess; to own
=11 重大 zhòng
  1. great
  2. important
  3. major
  4. significant
=11 重大 Chóng short for 重慶大學
12 决策 jué
  1. strategic decision
  2. decision-making
  3. policy decision
  4. to determine policy