英语单词“devil's advocate”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 devil's advocate 释义 devil's advocatenoun[Cusually singular]uk

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/?dev.?lz ??d.v?.k?t/us

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/?dev.?lz ??d.v?.k?t/someone whopretends, in anargumentordiscussion, to be against anideaorplanthat a lot ofpeoplesupport, inorderto makepeoplediscussandconsiderit in moredetail:假意反对的人，故意唱反调的人I don't reallybelieveall that - I was justplayingdevil'sadvocate.我并不完全相信那些——我只是故意唱反调而已。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Debate & discussion

• agent provocateur
• bargainer
• bat
• bat around
• broker
• closure
• cloture
• consult
• dialogue
• discursive
• parley
• polarized
• polemic
• polemical
• post-debate
• powwow
• provocateur
• re-explore
• sophistry
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(Definition ofdevil's advocatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)

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devil's advocatenoun[C]us

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/?dev·?lz ??d·v?·k?t/someone whosupportsanoppositeargumentor one that is notpopularinorderto makepeoplethinkseriously(Definition ofdevil's advocatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/devil-s-advocate##