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单词 Potemkin village
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Potemkin village
n.
Something that appears elaborate and impressive but in actual fact lacks substance: "the Potemkin village of this country's borrowed prosperity" (Lewis H. Lapham).

[After Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who is said to have had elaborate fake villages constructed for Catherine the Great's tours of Ukraine and Crimea.]
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