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backhanded compliment

B 开头单词

基本解释

  • 諷刺挖苦的恭維話

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • They gave me a backhanded compliment when they said I was smart for a girl.
    他們說我是一個聰明的女生，其實是一句言不由衷的恭維話。
  • IT IS, according to enthusiasts for carbon markets, a sort of backhanded compliment.
    按碳市場擁躉們的說法，這是一種諷刺的恭維。
  • Are such “Fairtrade lite” strategies a rejection of Fairtrade's approach—or are they a backhanded compliment?
    這種“脫Fairtrade”策略究竟是對Fairtrade方式的否定，還是一種間接的恭維呢？

    • 權威例句

  • In the coffee houses of Lvov, optimistic Galician intellectuals see all this as a backhanded compliment.
    ECONOMIST: Ukraine
  • To Mr Heinapuu and his pals, the Russian ire they arouse is a backhanded compliment.
    ECONOMIST: The Finno-Ugrics
  • So it did too in Argentina—a backhanded compliment to the vigour of the country's recovery from its economic collapse of 2001-02.
    ECONOMIST: The Latinobarómetro poll

词组短语

    短語

  • backhanded d compliment 挖苦意味的恭維話