mendacity
音标发音
- 英式音标 [menˈdæs.ə.ti]
- 美式音标 [menˈdæs.ə.t̬i]
- 国际音标 [men'dæsəti]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 谎言;虚伪;撒谎癖
词根记忆
- 来自mendacious(adj.习惯性说谎的)
英汉例句
- The industry became a byword for mendacity, secrecy and profligacy with taxpayers' money.
这个产业已经成为谎言、秘密以及浪费纳税人钱财的代名词。 - In each case the tone of the comments was often strikingly unpleasant, with sweeping accusations of anti-Semitism, genocide, imperialism, treachery and mendacity.
针对每个事件,评论的语气都特别不令人愉悦,从反犹太主义、种族灭绝、帝国主义到背叛、虚伪行为都给予了批判。 - Unseemly self-exposures, unpalatable betrayals, unavoidable mendacity, a soupçon of meretriciousness: memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family.
失态的自我揭露,难以置信的背叛,不可避免的谎言,加上少许虚华:回忆录,在其短短的历史中,向来是文学家族里的害群之马。 - Or if I can put the case for them slightly anachronistically, these are two sons of the upper bourgeois who feel degraded by the mendacity and hypocrisy of the world they see around them.
或如果我将他们,稍微错置于其它时间,他们是上层中产阶级的两名儿子,他们觉得,因为虚伪和伪善而降尊了,因那充斥着他们周围所见的世界。
耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选 - But this line is hard to square with Ms Kadeer's descriptions of Chinese brutality, mendacity and pettiness.
ECONOMIST: Speaking out for the Uighurs - For a party that was, from the very beginning, wreathed in mendacity and incompetence this is not exactly shocking.
FORBES: Russia's Communist Party - Still Full of Degenerate Old Hacks - Of all the mendacity that pollutes Middle Eastern discourse, this is the worst.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy
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词组短语
- mendacity candor 谎言
- mendacity detail 说谎癖
- mendacity y 男人们一到大城市就会变得很虚假;虚假
- mendacity veracity 虚假
- nor mendacity 也不是虚伪
短语
英英字典
- the act of not telling the truth
- Mendacity is lying, rather than telling the truth.
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专业释义
- 虚伪
Another kind of "mendacity" comes from nihilism of value resulting from moral putridness on Christianity's history.
另一种“虚伪”是由历史上基督教道德的腐化而来的价值虚无主义。