mendacity

英 [menˈdæsəti] 美 [menˈdæsəti]

n.  撒谎; 捏造; 说瞎话

GRE医学

BNC.44588 / COCA.35259



牛津词典

noun

  1. 撒谎;捏造;说瞎话
    the act of not telling the truth

    柯林斯词典

    1. N-UNCOUNT 撒谎;虚假;捏造
      Mendacity is lying, rather than telling the truth.
      1. ...an astonishing display of cowardice and mendacity.
        懦弱和撒谎的表现令人吃惊

    双语例句

    1. Rivalries make great stories, and the greatest rivalries make the greatest tales& reason enough to read the following portraits of brilliance, skullduggery, nobility, mendacity, victory, and failure.
      角逐能催生伟大的故事,最伟大的角逐则催生最伟大的传奇这样的理由足以说明下面的文字值得一读它们描写的是聪慧、欺诈、高贵、谎言、胜利和失败。
    2. Guanhua is more reliable than ordinary mendacity as it indicates not only what the speaker wants the listener to believe, but where the speaker's interests lie.
      官话比普通谎言更可靠,因为它不仅表明了说话者希望听众相信什么,而且表明了说话者的利益所在。
    3. It was that the incentive for mendacity is growing, as unemployment balloons and competition for jobs rises.
      伴因为失业人数快速膨胀,及就业竞争加剧,说谎的目的在不断加强。
    4. The ending is bleak indeed: those who live by mendacity will die by it.
      结局十分阴郁:那些靠谎言活着的人将因谎言而死去。
    5. Or if I can put the case for them slightly anachronistically, these are two sons of the upper bourgeois who feel degraded by the mendacity and hypocrisy of the world they see around them.
      或如果我将他们,稍微错置于其它时间,他们是上层中产阶级的两名儿子,他们觉得,因为虚伪和伪善而降尊了,因那充斥着他们周围所见的世界。
    6. Politicians are often accused of mendacity.
      政客们常被斥为扯谎成性。
    7. It also accounts for his mendacity and dishonesty.
      这也说明了他的狡猾。
    8. The fixation of commentators and practitioners with them is telling, though not mainly about mendacity.
      虽然大部分的关注和谎言无关,评论员们和撒谎者们对于谎言“热爱”还是非常显著。
    9. One prediction rang true from the research by the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors. It was that the incentive for mendacity is growing, as unemployment balloons and competition for jobs rises.
      英国教育评估人特许学会(CharteredInstituteofEducationalAssessors)所做的研究中,有一个预测听上去真实可靠:随着失业人数迅速膨胀,及就业竞争加剧,说谎的动机在不断增强。
    10. Enterprises management and other people around the enterprises need the exact and correlational information, but the accounting information in China is mendacity. It interrupts greatly the socialist market economic order.
      企业管理者和其他利益相关者都需要获得准确、相关的会计信息,而我国财务会计信息失真的现象严重,严重影响了社会主义市场经济的秩序。

    英英释义

    noun

    1. the tendency to be untruthful