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tokenism

T 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈtəʊ.kən.ɪ.zəm]
  • 美式音标 [ˈtoʊ.kən.ɪ.zəm]
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基本解释

  • n. 象征主义;装门面;表面文章

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Women have not even reached the level of tokenism that blacks are reaching.
    妇女甚至还没有达到黑人所达到的象征性的平等水平。
  • E. g. : Despite pronouncements about being committed to ending apartheid, many U. S. companies engage merely in tokenism.
    许多美国公司尽管公开表示愿意终止种族隔离政策,但只是装点门面而已。
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  • Nobody likes quotas: they smack of tokenism and unfair competition.
    没人喜欢定量:定量看上去有些做表面文章和不公平竞争的意思。
  • 权威例句

  • Instead, we now have intentional paralysis by analysis and economic tokenism.
    FORBES: The Truth About Obama, Oil And The Gasoline Blame Game-Part Two
  • The club could stubbornly resist admitting women and get criticized for being sexist, or it could admit them, and get (rightly) taunted for being decades behind the times and accused of tokenism.
    FORBES: On Being A Female Sports Fan
  • Including the appointment of Hilda Solis as Labour Secretary he has even managed to pick two blacks, three Hispanics and two Asian-Americans—and five of his cabinet are women—without any accusations of tokenism.
    ECONOMIST: Barack Obama has chosen a team of heavyweights

词组短语

    短语

  • Engage in tokenism 做表面文章

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • actions that are the result of pretending to give advantage to those groups in society who are often treated unfairly, in order to give the appearance of fairness
  • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you refer to an action as tokenism, you disapprove of it because you think it is just done for effect, in order to show a particular intention or to impress a particular type of person.

专业释义

    心理学

  • 象征式行为
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