Potemkin village

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any false construct devised to disguise a shortcoming or improve appearances. idiomatic
    — Such concentration not only simplifies the task of keeping tabs on foreigners' movements, but it also enables the Government to influence the outside world's picture of Russia by arranging matters in Moscow to make it a sort of huge, latter-day Potemkin Village.

词形变化

Potemkin villages plural

词源

Calque of Russian потёмкинская деревня (potjómkinskaja derévnja), named for purported fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.
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