exist only in name

基本解釋

You should, and could have preserved your city walls and all those city gates, which now exist only in name.
你們應該并能夠保留你們的城墻和全部城門，而這些城墻城門現(xiàn)在只是有名無實。
If such a view were to prevail, Singapore would eventually become a monolingual society and the bilingual policy would exist only in name.
如果讓這種主張占主導，到頭來，新加坡必成為單語社會，雙語政策名存實亡。
As a social organization, before country appeared, commune always exist in every history period, only exist differences in name, in nature and form of expression.
公社，作為一種社會組織形式，總是召見于國家產生前的社會形態(tài)的各個歷史時期之中，只不過存在著名稱、表現(xiàn)形式及性質的差異。