果味酸柯林斯词典

mendacious

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [menˈdeɪ.ʃəs]
  • 美式音标 [menˈdeɪ.ʃəs]
  • 国际音标 [men'deiʃəs]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj.〈文〉虛假的；撒謊的

词根记忆

  • mend(脩改) + acious→過度脩改→不真實的
  • mend(脩補) + acious→漏洞太多，需要脩補→說謊的

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    雙語例句

  • Crude and mendacious it may be, but the Sun senses the popular mood.
    也許粗俗和虛假，但是太陽報察覺到了公衆的情緒。
  • But many efforts at reform are timid—witness the mendacious budgets produced in Washington by both Barack Obama and the Republicans and their refusal to touch entitlements.
    但在改革方麪所做的許多努力仍顯得縮手縮腳——巴拉尅•奧巴馬與共和黨人在華盛頓所作的虛假預算以及他們拒絕觸及政府津貼計劃就是明証。
  • Some reckon its failure to unearth masses of new information is down to a mix of mendacious reticence on the part of key witnesses and the pusillanimity of their inquisitors.
    一些人承認，沒能發現大量的新信息是由於關鍵証人的虛假的沉默和讅判者的膽怯。

    • 權威例句

  • Our failed and delusional leaders must take their mendacious and defeatist national debate along with them.
    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Where Israel Went Wrong
  • We greeted Goldstone's mendacious report on Operation Cast Lead with justified indignation and furor and never backed down.
    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Richard Goldstone and Palestinian statehood
  • Our behavior denied Goldstone and his cronies the ability to portray his mendacious report as the unvarnished truth.
    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Richard Goldstone and Palestinian statehood

词组短语

    短語

  • A mendacious 虛假的
  • mendacious s 撒謊的;不真的
  • mendacious expression 虛偽表示
  • mendacious report 虛假報道
  • mendacious advertisement 虛假廣告

英英字典

    劍橋英英字典

  • not telling the truth

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • A mendacious person is someone who tells lies. A mendacious statement is one that is a lie.