| 单词 | special pleading |
| 释义 | special pleading noun[U] uk/ˌspeʃ.əl ˈpliː.dɪŋ/us/ˌspeʃ.əl ˈpliː.dɪŋ/theactofarguingfrom aparticularcaseinorderto get anunfairadvantagein a moregeneralsituation 诡辩Debate & discussion
Examplesofspecial pleadingspecial pleading But this seems a recourse tospecialpleading. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet a closer reading of his text reveals an uncomfortable number of instances of what might be termedspecialpleading. From theCambridge English Corpus Quite so, but all the relevant chapters on the origin of life show how the entire area is dogged by incomplete arguments andspecialpleading. From theCambridge English Corpus It will take nospecialpleadingto argue that another was race. From theCambridge English Corpus This is notspecialpleading, the guidelines suggested, this is general pleading. From theCambridge English Corpus Somespecialpleadingis required to decide between the two possibilities. From theCambridge English Corpus In hindsight, what may seem the most peculiar is the degree ofspecialpleadingthat has accompanied some claims for cryptic intervals of evolution. From theCambridge English Corpus And familiarity will surely engender popularity: the music needs nospecialpleading. From theCambridge English Corpus Yet despite these differences, both fall into the same trap ofspecialpleadingwhen it comes to extrapolating their favourite mechanism into a universal principle. From theCambridge English Corpus They seem to call forspecialpleading, an extra effort to legitimise their existence, to demonstrate their dramatic relevance. From theCambridge English Corpus Managing such equity-efficiency trade-offs on the basis of intuition is unsatisfactory in a democracy, as it arouses suspicions ofspecialpleadingand favoritism toward vested interests. From theCambridge English Corpus To maintain otherwise is simplyspecialpleading. From theCambridge English Corpus Of course, at one level, interdisciplinary discussion is all to the good, but it is not merelyspecialpleadingto have hoped for a greater contribution from historians. From theCambridge English Corpus Despite muchspecialpleadingall around, these claims don't obviously decide between the feuding interpretations just mentioned, though that doesn't mean that such passages are equally friendly to all sides. From theCambridge English Corpus I am not doing somespecialpleadinghere. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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