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单词 lip service
释义
lip service
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlɪp ˌsɜː.vɪs/us
/ˈlɪp ˌsɝː.vɪs/
pay lip service tosomething
to say that youagreewith something but do nothing tosupportit:
口头上同意，口头上支持
Sheclaimsto be infavouroftraining, but sofarshe's onlypaidlipserviceto theidea.她声称对培训持赞成态度，但到目前为止她的赞成还仅仅停留在口头上。
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(Definition oflip servicefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

lip service| American Dictionary

lip service
noun[U]
us
/ˈlɪp ˌsɜr·vɪs/
topubliclysupportorapproveof something, whileactuallytaking noactiontoproduceit:
A lot ofadultspaylip service to theideathat it isimportanttolistentoteenagers'ideas, but theytendtolistenand thenforget.
Is this arealpromise, or is this just lip service?
(Definition oflip servicefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflip service

lip service
The methods for gene expression analyses are subsequently detailed mainly for this type of design, althoughlipserviceis paid to alternative methods.
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In reality onlylipserviceis paid to these effects by most workers.
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Payinglipserviceto or totally ignoring mathematics became a widespread attitude in (nongenetic) structuralism.
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Egyptological writing occasionally still payslipserviceto the idea of an age of the earth measured in thousands of years.
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Let us now pay more thanlipserviceto this premise, and analyse the environmental structures that make heuristics more or less useful.
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This is the meaning of pay in the expressions pay homage, paylipserviceand pay attention.
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This is often perceived as merelipserviceto the sacred law, but it is a necessary element in combining the two systems.
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Others may givelipserviceto religions because it is to their advantage to do so.
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Presteigne doesn't need 'themes' (nor can it do anything but paylipserviceto them in a mere six days).
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In fact, quite a few "tensions and competing insights" are actually given little more thanlipservice (frequently relegated to footnotes) throughout the book.
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People in the provinces, even while payinglipserviceto the ideology of the colonial state, did not 'modify' modern school buildings beyond recognition because they were ignorant.
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In particular, we agree with his claim that the time is ripe for linguists to pay more thanlipservice to the long-standing mentalistic commitments of the field.
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To make the distinction without substantiating the existence of both types of representation with data would be little more than payinglipserviceto the more complete models.
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All too often, conceptuallipserviceis accorded to social identity as a negotiative process rather than a mere immutable given; empirical data are often conspicuously scarce or even absent.
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It is all too easy to paylipserviceto human rights.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
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