词汇 | soi-disant |
释义 | soi-disant adjective uk /ˌswɑː.diːˈzɒ̃/ us /ˌswɑː.diːˈzɑ̃ː/ used to say that someone claims to be a particular thing, especially when you do not accept that person's claim. Soi-disant comes from French: (来自法语,用来表示不相信所声称的)所谓 a soi-disant literary critic一个所谓的文学评论家 Assertions & asserting affirm affirmation airing assert assert your right assertion beg designation emphatic gaslight hate speech lay something on the lineidiom plead pretend reaffirm reassertion rooftop self-affirmation send send a messageidiom Examples of soi-disantsoi-disant The soi-disant quality newspapers are sprouting business sections, so there is a great demand for business journalists. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I think it is only right that railwaymen should realise that that is the attitude of their soi-disant friends. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Those who argue in this way have mesmerised themselves into accepting their own subjective judgments, simply because those judgments are dressed up in a soi-disant mathematical equation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The position remains unchanged: that is to say, a soi-disant government, illegal, not recognised by us or, indeed, by any other country in the world. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It traces these soi-disant barons in an appendix. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Fanzines enabled fans to write not only about science fiction but about fandom itself and, in soi-disant perzine (i.e. "per" sonal "zine"), about themselves. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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