英语单词 | hypocrisy |
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英美音标 | 英 [hɪ'pɒkrəsi] 美 [hɪ'pɑːkrəsi] |
中文释义 | n.伪善 |
英语例句 | (1) We were cheated by his hypocrisy. (2) I have no brow of such worldly hypocrisy. |
中文例句 | (1) 我们都被他的伪善欺骗了。 (2) 我讨厌这种老于世故的伪善。 |
vocabulary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. |
vocabulary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. |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [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]
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