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单词 self-deception
释义
self-deception
noun[U]
uk
/ˌself.dɪˈsep.ʃən/us
/ˌself.dɪˈsep.ʃən/
theactofhidingthetruthfrom yourself:
自欺欺人
Hisclaimto be animportantandunjustlyneglectedpainterissheerself-deception - he's no good at all.他自称是位被无端埋没的伟大画家，这纯粹是自欺欺人——他根本就一无是处。
Synonym
self-deceit
More examples
  • Hislifewasfullofliesand self-deception.
  • Self-deception is a way wejustifyfalsebeliefsto ourselves.
  • Theyweavesuch awebof self-deception that they cannottellthedifferencebetweendreamandreality.
  • Self-deception may not always be aflawand mayevenbebeneficialattimes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not believing
  • anti-science
  • anti-scientific
  • are my eyes deceiving me?idiom
  • as if!idiom
  • authority
  • I'll eat my hatidiom
  • iconoclasm
  • iconoclastic
  • in your dreams!idiom
  • incredulity
  • joke
  • Marines
  • salt
  • satisfied
  • since whenidiom
  • takesomethingwith a pinch of saltidiom
  • tell me another one!idiom
  • tell that/it to the Marines!idiom
  • worship
  • yeah
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(Definition ofself-deceptionfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofself-deception

self-deception
From the libertarian perspective, suchself-deceptionis naturally understood as an expression of our freedom.
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But some people, owing to ignorance,self-deception, or willful blindness, do not see that this is a task calling for cooperation of an unprecedented kind.
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Their feeling of security was aself-deception, they were effacing an aspect of reality, a phenomenon which, in clinical psychiatry, is labelled denial.
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This bit of deception, even if it was onlyself-deception, disturbed many of us, and we persuaded him to stop.
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Various philosophers have pondered the question of howself-deceptionis possible.
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Concealers who believe that their lies are morally less bad than those of falsifiers are indulging inself-deception.
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The stir that this result created among generative linguists is evidence of remarkableself-deceptionon the part of many of them.
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Their answer is that pride can motivate this choice andself-deceptioncan maintain it in the face of unhappiness.
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Commitment to revealed-preference theory also seems to involveself-deception.
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It is not cussedness, or blindness, or willingself-deceptionthat leads him to believe this.
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Unhappily, it is a method, which lends itself very readily toself-deception.
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In this case, because the desire in question is short term, it is difficult to distinguishself-deceptionfrom a real change in desire.
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Now it is clear that the pride of this people was the product ofself-deception, counting the whole world as insignificant in their view.
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Indeed, psychoanalytic theory suggests thatself-deceptioncan work only if there is more than a little truth in the deception.
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The cogito recognizes things and gets in the details, moving among spaces while invoking and imagining other sights and spaces, prone toself-deception.
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