基本释义:
n. 假虔诚的言辞;不切实际的道德言论
piety的复数
英 [ˈpaɪətiz] 美 [ˈpaɪətiz]
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...politicians who constantly intone pieties about respect for the rule of law.
把尊重法治挂在嘴边空谈的政治人物。
1. filial piety n. 孝顺;孝心
1. But these pieties misrepresent the true nature of an investment bank just as surely as the SEC did.
但这些虔诚的告白就像证交会的行为一样,绝对没有真实反映一家投行的本质。
2. The liberated pieties of people who believe that social attitudes have kept pace with women's aspirations ( Erica Abeel)
那些认为社会态度与妇女的希望保持一致的人们较为自由的声明(埃丽卡阿比尔)
3. So-called 100 kind filial pieties is first, reserve boon is bigger than to living boon, you hour once studied as well of, how accordingly careless?
所谓百善孝为先,养恩大于生恩,你小时也读过书的,怎如此糊涂?!
4. As the storm rages, the London summit looks like offering nothing but pieties.
当风暴袭来时,伦敦峰会好像除了虔诚什么也没有提供。
5. Fourth, we must avoid both protectionism and false pieties.
第四,我们必须避免首鼠两端一端是保护主义的真小人而另一端是自由主义的假道学。(典型的认知不协调)。
6. Few people who actually work in companies trading across borders will pay heed to the empty pieties emanating from Pittsburgh.
真正在从事跨境贸易的企业中工作的人,几乎不会在意来自匹兹堡的空洞誓言。
7. Spare me the Iaw school pieties, bruner.
别跟我来法律学院的那套了布伦娜。《provided by jukuu》
8. Once again, the scientists have caught us mouthing pieties while acting just the contrary.
你会说以貌取人不是美国人的做法,这不公平,令人难以置信然而,科学家们又一次证明我们言行不一。
9. But these concerns, he argued, make him more of a realist than a pessimist and put him in the role of the cleareyed outsider — unsettling complacency and puncturing pieties.
他声称,这些关切与其说让他成为一位悲观主义者,倒不如说使他变成一位现实主义者,一位破除自满,戳穿虔诚,眼光犀利的局外人。
10. There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.
所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。
11. The modern artist, by contrast, has no such secure niche in the social order, but it is precisely on this account that he or she refuses to take its pieties for granted.
相反,现代艺术家在社会地位上没有这样安全的壁龛,但恰恰因为这个事实,他或她能够拒绝把虔敬视为理所当然。
12. That mysterious place was illuminated only by Sun and Mirror pieties, where the angels were calling and Jade would be “the brightest star in the sky”.
那个正召唤着天使们以及婕得将会成为"天空中最亮的那颗星"的神秘地点(译注: 指洁德的病房)只有太阳报和镜报才能访问.
1. Maybe the Gennifer Flowers episode of Clinton's '92 campaign gave Hollywood the psychic go-ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency.
CNN: All The Presidents' Movies
2. What's worse, left out is the book's heated morning-after exchange between Rearden and Dagny that shreds the hypocritical pieties of conventional morality, replacing it with a heroic eroticism whose energy sparkles through the remainder of the story.
FORBES: Magazine Article
3. This, too, succeeded in rupturing old pieties, opening architecture to a paroxysm of experimental pluralism.
WSJ: When the Outrageous Became Mainstream
4. There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.
所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。政治哲学导论课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
5. Cochrane is the author of a bible of finance called Asset Pricing but in recent times has been piercing the pieties of macroeconomics.
FORBES: John Cochrane's Unpleasant Fiscal Arithmetic
6. The people we worked with, with all their tics and pieties and limitations we had to admit it to ourselves, they weren't all that bad.
NPR: Excerpt: 'Then We Came to the End'
7. Strip away the pieties and this is illiberal stuff.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
8. Second, our student newspaper was overseen by journalism professors, who inculcated their students with inspiring pieties about the ideal of free expression.
WSJ: Best of the Web Today: See You in the Funny Papers
9. Not that Mr Davies's note has much in common with front-bench pieties.
ECONOMIST: British history