self-deception

noun

1. 自我欺骗
   the act of making yourself believe sth that you know is not true

1. N-UNCOUNT 自欺;自我欺骗
   Self-deception involves allowing yourself to believe something about yourself that is not true, because the truth is more unpleasant.
   1. Human beings have an infinite capacity for self-deception.
      人类自欺的本事是无穷的。

1. Human beings have an infinite capacity for self-deception.
   人类自欺的本事是无穷的。
2. Self-deception is likely. You can learn a great deal more if you listen rather than rant and rave.
   若能试着聆听而不是大叫大嚷的话，你就能学到更多。
3. For some people, self-deception becomes a habit, spinning out of control and providing a basis for more lies.
   对于有些人来说，自我欺骗成为一种习惯，失去了控制，会让他们说出越来越多的谎言。
4. Self-deception is likely to get the better of you this week. The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.
   巨蟹：自欺欺人只会弄得自己遍体鳞伤。所有的欺骗中最糟糕的是自欺。
5. In fact, we know that our pursuit of illusory rather than real results, but we have to keep calm, the reality of self-deception in our society.
   其实我们都知道自己追求的是虚幻而不真实的结果，可是我们还沉静在我们自欺欺人的现实社会中。
6. I just want memories, memories that spin at self-deception in life.
   我只想回忆，回忆那在自欺中打转的生活。
7. Self-deception regarding your own worth may lead you down the wrong path.
   对于自我价值的自欺欺人会将你引入歧途。
8. But hardly anyone could be found who would deny these partial successes and ascribe them to human self-deception.
   但是大概不会有谁能否认这些部分的成功，而把它们归之于人类的自我斯骗。
9. The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life.
   傻瓜们的荒唐事：人类生活中欺骗和自我欺骗的逻辑。
10. Men over women to enjoy, so that women frivolous self-deception;
    男人对女人过分欣赏，使女人轻浮自欺；
11. As a result, gratitude itself contains self-deception for goodwill and numbness causing the loss of some memories.
    结果，感激本身就必然包含了善意的自欺欺人，包含了让部分记忆丧失掉的麻木。
12. Why do some people like self-deception?
    为什么有的人喜欢自我欺骗呢？
13. The Self and Others. Self-Deception, Self-Presentation, Cognitive Dissonance.
    自我与他人。自我欺骗、自我呈现、认知失调。
14. "That is where our superior powers of self-deception come in," said the niece;
    “这就扯到人类傲慢的自我欺骗上了，”侄女说；
15. The self-deception of living within the lie is how banks fell victim to the credit crunch and the US came to be embroiled in Iraq.
    在谎言中生活所蕴含的自我欺骗，正是银行业成为信贷危机牺牲品和美国身陷伊拉克泥潭的原因。
16. Self-deception is likely to get the better of you this week.
    自欺欺人只会弄得自己遍体鳞伤。
17. To such perseverance in wilful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew;
    他再三要存心自欺欺人，伊丽莎白可懒得再去理他，马上不声不响地走开了。
18. Self-deception makes it easier to manipulate others to get ahead.
    自我欺骗的人更坦然地操控他人往前走。
19. Ultimately, when stubborn historical facts had dispersed all intoxicating effects of self-deception, this form of Socialism ended in a miserable fit of the blues.
    最后，当顽固的历史现实散布所有的自欺欺人的醉人的结果的时候，这种形式有社会主义结束于忧郁的痛苦中。
20. "There's plenty of time yet, it can wait." Self-deception.
    “时间还长，再等等。”自我欺骗道。
21. It would be self-deception to think that unemployment could be swept under the carpet.
    认为失业问题可以被掩盖起来是自欺欺人。
22. Self-deception about relationships is a problem.
    摩羯座：对于关系自欺欺人是你的困难。
23. Perhaps Europe will stumble down this road of self-deception and force its domestic investors to follow suit.
    或许欧洲将在这条自欺欺人的道路上跌跌撞撞地走下去，并迫使本土投资者追随他们的脚步。
24. I never self-deception. I just look at the real.
    我从来不自欺欺人。我只看真实。
25. But it would be the height of self-deception for anyone to jump to the conclusion that a nuclear-armed Iran would not be dangerous at all.
    但是，对于任何人来说，认为伊朗是否拥有核武器无所谓的想法完全是自欺欺人。
26. Resentment at US power is being replaced by contempt, as the impotence and self-deception of the American political class in the face of the country's problems become increasingly evident.
    由于美国政治阶层在面对国家日益明显的问题时表现出的无能和自欺欺人，人们对美国政权的不满已经变成了不屑。
27. Let us then beware of self-deception.
    那就让我们提防自欺行为吧。
28. I think that we need a little more self-deception, and tell us that he is just that into you.
    我想这个时代更需要一点自欺欺人，告诉我们自己他其实很爱你。
29. What we do not deal with is self-deception.
    可我们不处理自己人的欺诈行为。
30. But there are little empirical studies about self-deception from the psychology point in the China.
    目前，国内从心理学角度对自欺的实证研究较少，系统地对大学生自欺特点的研究更是空白。

noun

1. a misconception that is favorable to the person who holds it

   Synonym:    self-deceit