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Hypocrisy People Follow 英 Hɪ'Pɒkrəsi] 美 Hɪ'Pɑːkrəsi N.伪善 Cheated

英语单词 hypocrisy
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
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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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