- a battleship whose crew mutinied in the Russian Revolution of 1905 when in the Black Sea, bombarding Odessa before seeking asylum in Romania. The incident persuaded the tsar to agree to a measure of reform.波将金号战舰（该舰船员于1905年俄国革命期间在黑海叛乱, 炮轰敖德萨之后到罗马尼亚寻求避难。此事促使沙皇进行了一些改革）。
adjective
- informal having a false or deceptive appearance, especially one presented for the purpose of propaganda〈非正式〉（尤指为宣传而）矫饰门面的：
it is a Potemkin party; there is little behind the impressive parliamentary group seen on television.
这是一个装点门面的政党, 除了电视上看到的议会党团翩翩外表并无实质内容。
词源
1930s: from Grigori Aleksandrovich Potyomkin （often transliterated Potemkin）， a favourite of Empress Catherine Ⅱ of Russia， who reputedly gave the order for sham villages to be built for the empress's tour of the Crimea in 1787.