hypocrisy

• n. 虚伪；伪善

来自希腊语hypokrisis,舞台表演，演戏，来自hypo-,在下，-kris,分开，筛选，评论，词源同crisis,critic.来自于古希腊时期的一种舞台表演形式，即边说边紧跟着发表看法，评论或进行阐释，引申词义表演，演戏。现义伪善，虚伪义可能来自于此，或来自hypo-,下面，欠缺，-kris,评论，观点，即不敢发表观点和看法的，掩饰真实情感的，引申词义伪善，虚伪。

1. an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

2. insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have

hypocrisy (n.)

c. 1200, ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis "acting on the stage, pretense," from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend," also "answer," from hypo- "under" (see sub-) + middle voice of krinein "to sift, decide" (see crisis). The sense evolution in Attic Greek is from "separate gradually" to "answer" to "answer a fellow actor on stage" to "play a part." The h- was restored in English 16c.

Hypocrisy is the art of affecting qualities for the purpose of pretending to an undeserved virtue. Because individuals and institutions and societies most often live down to the suspicions about them, hypocrisy and its accompanying equivocations underpin the conduct of life. Imagine how frightful truth unvarnished would be. [Benjamin F. Martin, "France in 1938," 2005]

He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another.

他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。

牛津词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

As the hypocrisy of people are alive!

人都是那样虚伪的活着!

期刊摘选

The government's claim to be about unemployment sheer hypocrisy.

政府声称对失业表示关注纯属摆姿态.

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Hypocrisy does not command respect . The U.

虚伪是不会赢得尊重的.

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Their talk never matched their walk , thus illegitimate child of hypocrisy.

他们的言行从不合一, 也因此他们成为假冒为善的人.

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Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging.

迷信 、 愚昧和虚伪具有腰缠万贯, 但真理一直是一个乞丐.

辞典例句

She Dislikes: Gossip, hypocrisy & Cockroaches.

她讨厌: 八卦(流言蜚语), 伪善 & 蟑螂.

期刊摘选

Can anyone stand this magnitude of hypocrisy and idiocy?

有谁能受得了这种虚伪和愚蠢?

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He said that he hated hypocrisy.

他说他憎恶虚伪.

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Dickens incarnated hypocrisy in his Uriah Heep.

狄更斯把虚伪体现在他塑造的人物赖亚·赫普身上.

《简明英汉词典》

She strongly denounced the Government's hypocrisy.

她强烈谴责政府虚伪.

期刊摘选

His statement reeks of hypocrisy.

他的话显然很虛伪.

《简明英汉词典》

In the moralistic accents of today's leaders we hear echoes of a previous generation's hypocrisy.

在当今领导人的说教腔调中,我们感到了上一代人的伪善.

《简明英汉词典》

It's absolutely incredible that this country is ready to accept this kind of hypocrisy.

这个国家能够接受这样的虚伪简直让人难以置信.

期刊摘选

You have a good eye for spotting hypocrisy.

伪善在你面前原形毕露.

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He has filled the country with lies and hypocrisy.

他的谎言和虚伪遍及整个国家.

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Circumstances impose on any public official some demand for a show of hypocrisy.

由于情况所迫,任何公职官员有时都不得不做出一些虚伪的表现.

辞典例句

We still do; living in a world in which underclared aggression, war, hypocrisy, chicanery, anarchy and impending immolation are part of our daily lives, we all want a code to live by.

我们仍然有这种感觉; 生活在一个不宣而战的侵略 、 战争 、 虚伪 、 诈骗 、 混乱以及迫在眉睫的杀戮充斥着我们日常生活的世界里, 我们都想有一种能赖以生存的准则.

《用法词典》

He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another.

他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

The baron became increasingly heated over the hypocrisy of it all.

男爵对整件事的虚伪感到越来越生气。

柯林斯例句

The whole thing reeks of hypocrisy.

整件事显然透着虚伪。

柯林斯例句

They left themselves wide open to accusations of double standards and hypocrisy.

他们使自己陷于被人指责搞双重标准和虚伪不实的境地。

柯林斯例句

The debate in the mainstream press has been a classic example of British hypocrisy.

主流媒体上的辩论是英国式虚伪的典型例子。

柯林斯例句

For them to attack the Liberals for racism is nauseating hypocrisy.

他们攻击自由党搞种族歧视是令人作呕的虚伪行径。

柯林斯例句

I challenged him on the hypocrisy of his political attitudes.

我就他虚伪的政治观点质问他。

柯林斯例句

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。

柯林斯例句

The TV show had the whiff of hypocrisy and pomposity.

这个电视节目有些伪善和夸耀的嫌疑。

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