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 euphemism ['ju:fәmizm]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 委婉说法, 委婉语

  1. `Pass water' is a euphemism for `urinate'.
    ｀小便＇是｀排尿＇的委婉语.
  2. `Pass away' is a euphemism for `die'.
    ｀去世＇是｀死＇的委婉说法.
  3. "Pass away" is a euphemism for "die".
    "过世"是"死"的委婉语。


euphemism
[ noun ]
an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh
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Euphemism \Eu"phe*mism\ ([=u]"f[-e]*m[i^]z'm), n. [Gr. ? fr. ?
to use word of a good omen; e'y^ well + ? to speak: cf. F.
euph['e]misme. See {Fame}.] (Rhet.)
A figure in which a harsh or indelicate word or expression is
softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an
inoffensive expression; a mild name for something
disagreeable.

  1. The IRA in a statement Wednesday said the Harte brothers and Mullin, 26, were on "active service" _ a guerrilla euphemism for a bombing or shooting mission _ when they were slain.
  2. He also refused to rule out categorically so-called revenue enhancements, the euphemism politicians often use in referring to increased taxes.
  3. In American parlance, the banks have simply leveraged the customer base - a euphemism for extracting increased profits from customers when you know that they are unable to go elsewhere.
  4. But in the same breath, they stress the need to "assure stability," a euphemism for continued communist control.
  5. In Africa, the bank's stock-in-trade "institution-building" projects were often a euphemism for setting up or reorganizing state marketing boards.
  6. In Japan, it is a euphemism for helpless or feeble, mostly because of the "silver seats" reserved for the elderly in Tokyo's sardine-can subway cars.
  7. Indeed, many of these companies now frown on the very word 'career', preferring instead the vaguer euphemism 'personal development'. Yet the task for which top managers are being groomed - or grooming themselves - is increasingly onerous.
  8. Bush, campaigning in Ohio, said Friday that a lower training wage, the administration's euphemism for a subminimum rate that it has advocated since 1981, must accompany any increase for him to support it.
  9. Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table."
  10. It may be a euphemism _ akin to "correctional institution" for prison _ but it's an ingeniously designed euphemism that often achieves its desired effect.
  11. It may be a euphemism _ akin to "correctional institution" for prison _ but it's an ingeniously designed euphemism that often achieves its desired effect.
  12. That was a euphemism for RAF, or "rent a face." BCCI officials seem to have rented some of the most prominent faces around.
  13. The euphemism factory in Washington now calls every federal spending program an "investment," but in no realm does the buzzword ring truer than in space.
  14. The "Social Pact" that he announced upon taking office in early 1984 turned out to be a euphemism for restricting imports, cutting the compensation of managers and decreeing additional make-work in a country where featherbedding abounds.
  15. "The wheelchair has become the euphemism for the handicapped; it's safer and less controversial," says Ms. Kingsley.
  16. In certain African languages the euphemism for sexual intercourse is 'laughing together'.
  17. During the campaign, Labor has used the euphemism "demographic problem" to refer to the fact that Palestinians will eventually outnumber Jews if Israel holds on to the occupied territories.
  18. At Alta's Shallow Shaft (a euphemism for a poor day's work by a workshy miner) you can eat swinging on old mining chairs.
  19. The suburb of Tukwila has achieved fame, or embarrassment, with a newspaper column that has made the town a euphemism for an act between two consenting adults.
  20. When the Reagan-Bush administration coined the euphemism "disinformation" to explain lying in connection with foreign policy?
  21. But, in fact, "loophole" appears to be this year's favorite euphemism for a tax increase.
  22. The title is a takeoff on "break a leg," the theater's euphemism for good luck.
  23. Joanne Limbach Tax Commissioner, State of Ohio Columbus, Ohio Among elected officials, the phrase "revenue enhancement" is often a euphemism for raising taxes.
  24. Active service is an IRA euphemism for gun and bomb attacks.
  25. The euphemism refers to government troops.
  26. "Is he a code?" is the first thing I am likely to be asked when any older patient is admitted to the hospital, referring to Code Blue, the euphemism for CPR.
  27. The IRA said the three men died "on active service," a euphemism for gun and bomb attacks.
  28. This year, however, the government is concerned that 36 percent inflation could trigger social unrest and it has stressed "unity," a euphemism for toeing the party line.
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