只是“座位上的一團(tuán)肉”？

Meat in a seat refers to a customer or employee who is unappreciated or viewed only as a source of revenue; or an unskilled person who is just along for the ride.

Meat in a seat(座位上的一團(tuán)肉)指不被賞識(shí)的員工或者僅被商家當(dāng)做收入來源的顧客;或指沒什么專業(yè)技能、在一旁“打醬油”的人。

For Example:

In the airlines industry, the success of Spirit has helped to legitimize practices that treat passengers, in the words of one consumer watchdog, like “meat in a seat.” When a carrier assumes the moral status of its customers to be different from an ATM only in respect to daily limits, monetizing the mistakes of first-time flyers can be a lucrative business.

在航空業(yè)，(美國廉價(jià)航空)精靈航空公司的成功使得把乘客當(dāng)做“座位上的一團(tuán)肉”來對(duì)待這樣的行為合理化。當(dāng)航空公司認(rèn)為，顧客跟自動(dòng)取款機(jī)的唯一區(qū)別只在于每日限額時(shí)，利用第一次乘飛機(jī)的乘客所犯的錯(cuò)誤來賺錢就會(huì)是一個(gè)利潤(rùn)豐厚的營(yíng)生。