backhanded compliment
基本解释
- 讽刺挖苦的恭维话
英汉例句
- They gave me a backhanded compliment when they said I was smart for a girl.
他们说我是一个聪明的女生，其实是一句言不由衷的恭维话。 - IT IS, according to enthusiasts for carbon markets, a sort of backhanded compliment.
按碳市场拥趸们的说法，这是一种讽刺的恭维。 - Are such “Fairtrade lite” strategies a rejection of Fairtrade's approach—or are they a backhanded compliment?
这种“脱Fairtrade”策略究竟是对Fairtrade方式的否定，还是一种间接的恭维呢？ - In the coffee houses of Lvov, optimistic Galician intellectuals see all this as a backhanded compliment.
ECONOMIST: Ukraine - To Mr Heinapuu and his pals, the Russian ire they arouse is a backhanded compliment.
ECONOMIST: The Finno-Ugrics - So it did too in Argentina—a backhanded compliment to the vigour of the country's recovery from its economic collapse of 2001-02.
ECONOMIST: The Latinobarómetro poll