| 词汇 | double-edged |
| 释义 | double-edged adjective uk /ˌdʌb.əlˈedʒd/ us /ˌdʌb.əlˈedʒd/ Something that is double-edged acts in two ways, often with one negative and one positive effect: 双重作用的，双刃的;利弊互现的 She paid me the double-edged compliment of saying my work was "excellent for a beginner."她用“优秀的新手”这种毁誉参半的话来赞扬我的工作。 double-edged sword The government's programme to grow cash crops for export is a double-edged sword because it has created a local food shortage.政府制定的种植经济作物以出口的计划是一把双刃剑，因为该计划造成了当地粮食短缺。 See also two-edged(TWO MEANINGS)UK Quite good, or not very good acceptable acceptably adequacy adequate adequately government half decent iffy impure indifferent passably patchily patchiness patchy presentably scratch spotty the/your average bearidiom up to scratchidiom weedy double-edged | American Dictionarydouble-edged adjective[ not gradable ] us/ˈdʌb·əlˈedʒd/ having two possible and different meanings or effects: Climate changes are potentially double-edged in their consequences. Wealth and fame can be a double-edged sword (= a situation with both positive and negative effects). Examples of double-edgeddouble-edged Indeed, it seems that there is double-edged risk of trivialization. But these portrayals were also double-edged in that they contributed to the passive and powerless image of women. The influence attained by folk healers was double-edged. On a more general level, this book can be read as a thoughtful and thought-provoking examination of the double-edged effects of globalisation. Thus, a double-edged process of change is underway. Several other issues raised in the strategy paper have similar double-edged implications for older people's health care. But that such 'protection' was a fragile refuge and that honour like many other instruments was double-edged were proved repeatedly. Like other aspects of women's involvement in political life, their participation in highly politicized social events elicited a double-edged response. The aversion of new course economics to all sorts of abstract theorising was double-edged. In the modern idiom this value might be referred to in a slightly double-edged way as greatness as opposed to goodness. One reason is the double-edged character of directpayments. The millowners saw only too clearly that the consequences of state intervention could be double-edged, and sometimes viewed the prospect with apprehension. It is particularly noteworthy that this new paradigm was double-edged in a very subtle way. So, the government introduced a double-edged policy that came to be known as villagisation. As a very different discourse and method for regulating employment to collective bargaining, the law provided a double-edged challenge to trade unions. See all examples of double-edged 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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