backhanded compliment

基本解釋

• 諷刺挖苦的恭維話

英漢例句

雙語例句

• They gave me a backhanded compliment when they said I was smart for a girl.
  他們說我是一個聰明的女生，其實是一句言不由衷的恭維話。
• IT IS, according to enthusiasts for carbon markets, a sort of backhanded compliment.
  按碳市場擁躉們的說法，這是一種諷刺的恭維。
• Are such “Fairtrade lite” strategies a rejection of Fairtrade's approach—or are they a backhanded compliment?
  這種“脫Fairtrade”策略究竟是對Fairtrade方式的否定，還是一種間接的恭維呢？

權威例句

• In the coffee houses of Lvov, optimistic Galician intellectuals see all this as a backhanded compliment.
  ECONOMIST: Ukraine
• To Mr Heinapuu and his pals, the Russian ire they arouse is a backhanded compliment.
  ECONOMIST: The Finno-Ugrics
• So it did too in Argentina—a backhanded compliment to the vigour of the country's recovery from its economic collapse of 2001-02.
  ECONOMIST: The Latinobarómetro poll

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詞組短語

短語

• backhanded d compliment 挖苦意味的恭維話

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