hypocrisy
hypocrisy 英 [hɪˈpɒkrəsi] 美 [hɪˈpɑkrəsi]
n. 虚伪；伪善
名词复数:hypocrisies
- 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.
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- n. 虚伪；伪善
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1. Next, we have the hypocrisy option.
其次，我们可以选择伪善。
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2. This is yet another example of Western hypocrisy.
而这又是西方国家伪善的另一例子。
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3. Through them I discovered that thought is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance, and hypocrisy.
通过他们我发现思考通常是充满了无意识的偏见、无知和虚伪的。
- hypocrisy (n.) c. 1200, ipocrisie, "the sin of pretending to virtue or goodness," from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis "hypocrisy," also "an imitation of a person's speech and gestures," from Attic Greek hypokrisis "acting on the stage; pretense," metaphorically, "hypocrisy," from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend," also "answer," from hypo- "under" (see hypo-) + middle voice of krinein "to sift, decide" (from PIE root *krei- "to sieve," thus "discriminate, distinguish"). 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.
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