1. two-faced

 

大家都知道咱們常說(shuō)的“二皮臉”的意思是“臉皮厚”，我發(fā)現(xiàn)英語(yǔ)中有一個(gè)表達(dá)字面意思與“二皮臉”很像：two-faced。

 

如果有人說(shuō)She is a two-faced person.你會(huì)不會(huì)就想當(dāng)然理解為“她臉皮很厚。”呢？

 

這是不對(duì)的哦~

 

Two-faced其實(shí)指的是“兩面派；偽君子”，英文解釋為：Duplicitous; habitually presenting a different version of oneself at different times, especially in the presence of different people.

 

（duplicitous [djuː'plɪsɪtəs; djʊ-] adj.奸詐的；雙重的；搞兩面派的）

 

所以：She is a two-faced person.意思是“她很虛偽。”

 

咱們?cè)賮?lái)看一個(gè)例子：

 

John is not as nice as he pretends to be. He is really two-faced.

 

約翰根本不是他裝出來(lái)的那么好，他真是個(gè)兩面派。

 

2. hypocrite ['hɪpəkrɪt] n.偽君子，偽善者

 

這個(gè)表達(dá)大家可能更加熟悉，美劇中也經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)，比如《生活大爆炸》里L(fēng)eonard曾說(shuō)：

 

What are you looking at? You’ve never seen a hypocrite before?

 

看什么看，沒見過偽君子嗎？

 

引申：

 

這個(gè)單詞有一個(gè)變形：hypocrisy [hɪ'pɒkrɪsɪ] n.虛偽，偽善

 

出現(xiàn)在報(bào)刊中的次數(shù)比較多，比如：

 

Through them I discovered that thought is often full of unconscious prejudice, ignorance, and hypocrisy.

 

通過他們我發(fā)現(xiàn)思考通常是充滿了無(wú)意識(shí)的偏見、無(wú)知和虛偽的。

 

Most of us are good at detecting hypocritical behavior in others, but we don't always see it so easily in ourselves.

 

我們大多數(shù)人都善于察覺別人的偽善行為，但是對(duì)自身卻不易察覺。

 

（來(lái)源：聽力課堂）