| 词汇 | lip-service |
| 释义 | lip service noun[ U ] uk /ˈlɪp ˌsɜː.vɪs/ us /ˈlɪp ˌsɝː.vɪs/ pay lip service to something to say that you agree with something but do nothing to support it: 口头上同意，口头上支持 She claims to be in favour of training, but so far she's only paid lip service to the idea.她声称对培训持赞成态度，但到目前为止她的赞成还仅仅停留在口头上。 Backing, supporting & defending adopt advocacy affirmation ally yourself to/with someone argumentation bail out bet buoy champion commitment over-favour pander to someone/something prop something up provide provide for someone root solidly sustenance underpin wave/show/fly the flagidiom lip service | American Dictionarylip service noun[ U ] us/ˈlɪp ˌsɜr·vɪs/ to publicly support or approve of something, while actually taking no action to produce it: A lot of adults pay lip service to the idea that it is important to listen to teenagers' ideas, but they tend to listen and then forget. Is this a real promise, or is this just lip service? Examples of lip servicelip service The methods for gene expression analyses are subsequently detailed mainly for this type of design, although lipservice is paid to alternative methods. In reality only lipservice is paid to these effects by most workers. Paying lipservice to or totally ignoring mathematics became a widespread attitude in (nongenetic) structuralism. Egyptological writing occasionally still pays lipservice to the idea of an age of the earth measured in thousands of years. Let us now pay more than lipservice to this premise, and analyse the environmental structures that make heuristics more or less useful. This is the meaning of pay in the expressions pay homage, pay lipservice and pay attention. This is often perceived as mere lipservice to the sacred law, but it is a necessary element in combining the two systems. Others may give lipservice to religions because it is to their advantage to do so. Presteigne doesn't need 'themes' (nor can it do anything but pay lipservice to them in a mere six days). In fact, quite a few "tensions and competing insights" are actually given little more than lip service (frequently relegated to footnotes) throughout the book. People in the provinces, even while paying lipservice to the ideology of the colonial state, did not 'modify' modern school buildings beyond recognition because they were ignorant. In particular, we agree with his claim that the time is ripe for linguists to pay more than lip service to the long-standing mentalistic commitments of the field. To make the distinction without substantiating the existence of both types of representation with data would be little more than paying lipservice to the more complete models. All too often, conceptual lipservice is accorded to social identity as a negotiative process rather than a mere immutable given; empirical data are often conspicuously scarce or even absent. It is all too easy to pay lipservice to human rights. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of lip service These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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