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Hypocrisy People Follow Hi'pɔkrisi N.伪善,虚伪 Church God Vegetarians

英语单词 hypocrisy
英美音标 [hi'pɔkrisi]
中文释义 n.伪善,虚伪
vocab简明 People who go to church but don't believe in god? People who are vegetarians on a moral basis but wear leather jackets? They are engaging in hypocrisy, or behavior that is different from what they say they believe.
vocab扩展 A hypocrite is a person who practices hypocrisy: what they say is not what they do. The noun hypocrisy descends from the Greek hypokrisis "acting on a stage," from hypokrinesthai "to play a part, pretend," from the prefix hypo- "under" plus krinein "to judge." Many times kids are enraged by their parents' hypocrisy when parents make their children follow rules they don't follow themselves.
真题原句 There is heavy note of hypocrisy in this, a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped -- with the educated themselves riding on them.
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[N-VAR 可变名词]虚伪;伪善 If you accuse someone of hypocrisy, you mean that they pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have.
  [disapproval]
  • He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story...

    他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。

  • You'll have little patience with the hypocrisy and double standards you encounter.

    你将会无法忍受所遭遇的伪善和双重标准。

  • ...the hypocrisies of middle-class provincial life.

    地方中产阶级生活的虚假矫饰

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