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词汇 double-standard
释义 double standard
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌdʌb.əl ˈstæn.dəd/ us /ˌdʌb.əl ˈstæn.dɚd/
a rule or standard of good behaviour that, unfairly, some people are expected to follow or achieve but other people are not: 双重标准
Some officials have protested about a perceived double standard in the guidelines.
have a double standardThe governor is being accused of having double standards in being tough on law and order yet allowing his own cabinet members to escape prosecution for fraud.人们指责政府施行双重标准,一方面严格要求法律和秩序的贯彻和遵守,另一方面却对议员们的欺诈行为不予追究。
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double standard | American Dictionary


double standard
noun[ C ]
us/ˈdʌb·əl ˈstæn·dərd/
the habit of treating one group differently than another when both groups should be treated the same

Examples of double standard


double standard
In addition, to restrict culture only to adaptive phenomenon in animals would result in a double standard regarding human culture, much of which is nonadaptive.
The widespread association of this disease with a dissolute life-style also explains a curious doublestandard regarding consumptive women.
Since very few middle- or upper-class women would have property in the form of earnings the doublestandard between rich and poor could be maintained.
But the intellectuals' preoccupation with linguistic analysis and cultural theory serves only to encourage the doublestandard of racial justice.
This doublestandard began to fray a bit by 1886 and after, as adultery of either parent came under scrutiny by the courts.
Perhaps more unsettling than the doublestandard in prosecuting the robed brood was the one that existed in actual law enforcement.
I considered that, given the commercialization of drug research and socioeconomic problems, a doublestandard might be very dangerous.
One fact that became clear from the interviews conducted during the survey was that the doublestandard was still very much in operation.
Hence, we would be guilty of employing a doublestandard were we to require of nonstandard practices that they enjoy discursive redemption.
Beside the intrinsic interest of studying the mechanism of social transmission of information within a species, the problem with this argument is the doublestandard it sets.
The doublestandard of aging.
Doublestandard of evaluating results.
The doublestandard of ageing.
Why is there this speciesist doublestandard?
The doublestandard was reinforced, as was the desire in men to have exclusive access to women, often achieved both inside and outside marriage by violence.
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