polite fiction

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A social scenario in which all participants are aware of a truth, but pretend to believe in some alternative version of events to avoid conflict or embarrassment. idiomatic
    — Susan is only able to deal with the fact that her husband has sex with the man down the street through a polite fiction. She knows what her husband is really doing when he says he is going "to buy cigarettes".

词形变化

polite fictions plural
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