lip service

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  • n. 说得好听的话;空口的应酬话
Noun:
  1. an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction

1. All the parties pay lip service to environmental issues.
对环境问题,各方都是口惠而实不至。

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2. Unhappily, he had done no more than pay lip service to their views.
不幸的是,他对他们的观点只予以口头上的支持。

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3. We give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, but at some level, we don't really believe it.
我们口口声声说我们会死,在某种程度上,我们并不真正相信。

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4. She only gives lip service.
她只是嘴上一套。

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5. Don't just pay lip service to what I ask of you.
对于我要求你做的事,别只是口头敷衍。

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6. They're only paying lip service to women's rights.
他们只是口头上支持妇女权利。

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7. We don't really believe what we give lip service to.
我们并不相信我们口头的说法。

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8. Some people only pay lip service to gender equality.
某些人主张两性平等都只是空口说白话而已。

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9. I believe that today lip service is given to the question of poverty.
我认为目前对于贫困问题只是在嘴上说说。

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10. Boss: Don't just pay lip service to what I ask of you. You always drag your feet.
老板:对于我要求你做的事,别只是口头敷衍。你做事老是拖拖拉拉的。

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11. Some people pay lip service to education, but don't vote taxes for better schools.
有些人口头上支持教育工作,但他们不愿纳税来改善办学条件。

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12. The rest of the time it may pay lip service to it, but only for marketing purposes.
其他时候就是为了市场的目的而敷衍。

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13. Butt most hairdressers at least pay lip service to following their clients' instructions.
不过大多数的发型师至少还能在嘴上听从顾客的意思。

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14. And too many leaders who are on social media pay it lip service, and use only a fraction of its potential.
而就算是在使用社交媒体的领导者中,也有很大一部只是敷衍应对,而且只用到了它潜力中的一小部分。

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15. This approach is given lip service now, but the majority of people who say they believe this don't use it continually.
这个方法现在只是口头上的,但是绝大多数说相信这的人不是不断地使用这个方法。

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16. Many Palestinians, likewise, have lost faith in what they consider the lip service Israel pays to a two-state solution.
同样的,许多巴勒斯坦人认为以色列对于两国并存的方案只是口头上说说,因此他们对此失去了信心。

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17. On the one hand it pays lip service to the idea of rebuild an effective state in the image of Scandinavia in the 1950s.
一方面,他们嘴上说的很好听,要重建一个有效的国家,以50年代的斯堪的纳维亚为蓝本;

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18. So many of us simply pay lip service to the phrase "family is my number one priority" yet very few of us actually live it.
我们当中很多人只会在口头上说“家庭是最重要的”,但事实上很少有人真正的做到这一点。

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19. It seems the "Purpose" for Hsieh and his company begins with serving the customer-truly serving, not just offering lip service.
托尼谢及他的公司似乎是从真心诚意为顾客服务开始的,而不是防空炮。

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20. I am serious as hell this time, I am leaving him. I will never buy his lip service after being deceived so many times by him.
这一次我真是认真的了,我要离开他。被他骗了那么多次,我再也不要相信他的花言巧语了。

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21. Although politicians pay lip service to those goals, insufficient effort has been made to structure incentives in that direction.
尽管政客门口惠于这些目标,但是构建朝着这个方向动机的努力还远远不够。

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22. Politicians often pay lip service to many important issues during an election but they don' t fulfill their promises once they are elected.
政客们在大选中对很多大事都只是嘴上工夫而已,一旦当选就没人会履行诺言。

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23. Acquire a selection of boxsets to watch while snuggled up in the evening, such as Prisoner Cell Block H, Bad Girls, The L Word, and Lip Service.
收集一箱晚上相互依偎时候看的影碟,如:囚徒细胞H座、坏女孩、L世界、假殷勤。

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24. "I have given lip service to" tolerance "and to" understanding "for years but only now do I think I begin to understand a little what they mean."
几年来,我一直口头信奉着“容忍”与“理解”,但我觉得,直到今天我才开始对他们的含义有了些许的了解。

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25. In fact, you must make a conscious effort to create a viable contingency plan instead of sticking your head in the sand or giving it only lip service.
事实上,你需要创造一个有应变能力的计划,而不是像鸵鸟那样,把头埋在沙子里,对外界不管不问,或者只是光说不做,纸上谈兵。

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26. Well, maybe the explanation is, although we give lip service to the claim that we're mortal, at some more fundamental level, we don't truly believe it.
也许这个的解释就是,纵然我们口头上说我们会死,在某些最根本的层面上我们其实并不相信。

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27. Admittedly, most organizations that have employees who touch customers will at least give lip service to the critical importance of their human resources.
我们不得不承认,大多数的组织对于他们的雇员,他们最为重要的人力资源,所给予的仅仅是一些口头的承诺,而这些雇员,却正是和消费者打交道的人。

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28. Admittedly, most organizations that have employees who touch customers will at least give lip service to the critical importance of their human resources.
我们不得不承认,大多数的组织对于他们的雇员,他们最为重要的人力资源,所给予的仅仅是一些口头的承诺,而这些雇员,却正是和消费者打交道的人。

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    用作名词 (n.)
    1. He paid only lip service to the dictator.
      他只以空洞的应酬话对付那个独裁者。

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