hypocrite ['hɪpəkrɪt] n.伪君子，伪善者

 

这个表达大家可能更加熟悉，美剧中也经常出现，比如《生活大爆炸》里Leonard曾说：

 

What are you looking at? You’ve never seen a hypocrite before?

看什么看，没见过伪君子吗？

 

引申：

 

这个单词有一个变形：hypocrisy¹ [hɪ'pɒkrɪsɪ] n.虚伪，伪善

 

出现在报刊中的次数比较多，比如：

 

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。

 

Most of us are good at detecting hypocritical behavior in others, but we don't always see it so easily in ourselves.

我们大多数人都善于察觉别人的伪善行为，但是对自身却不易察觉。

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