devil's advocate
devil's advocate 英 [ˈdevəlz] 美 [ˈdɛvəlz]
phrase. 故意持相反意见的人；故意唱反调的人
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- phrase. 故意持相反意见的人；故意唱反调的人
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1. Let me play devil's advocate for a moment.
让我暂时扮演一下魔鬼的代言人。
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2. When I went out to see "The devil's advocate" I was expecting one of the two "genres" mentioned above.
当我去看《魔鬼代言人》时，并没有抱有看一部超出上述两种类型范畴电影的期望。
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3. This is when you need to sharpen your communication skills to play mediator as needed or even devil's advocate in many situations.
这就是您需要加强交流技能的时候，以根据需要扮演中间人，甚至在许多情况下故意唱反调。
- devil's advocate (n.) 1760, translating Latin advocatus diaboli, in the Catholic Church, a promoter of the faith and officer of the Sacred Congregation of Rites whose job it is to urge against the canonization of a candidate for sainthood. "[F]ar from being the whitewasher of the wicked, the [devil's advocate] is the blackener of the good." [Fowler]. Said to have been first employed in connection with the beatification of St. Lorenzo Giustiniani under Leo X (1513-21).
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