英语词汇“fig leaf”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fig leaf

noun

1A leaf of a fig tree, often used for concealing the genitals in paintings and sculpture.The young woman, whose speech and behavior reek of defiance bordering on dementia, disapproves of the puritanism that placed a plaster fig leaf over the genitals of a statue of God....

More sympathetic observers like Peter Kolb suggested that as a natural fig leaf it modestly concealed the female genitals.
This was not the mythical Pan, half-man and half-goat, but a mature human male whose nudity was compromised only by the prominent fig leaf covering his genitals.

1.1A thing intended to conceal a difficulty or embarrassment: the amendment was just a fig leaf intended to cover the cracks in the party...

They are a political fig leaf to cover the government's embarrassment over that.
This is merely a fig leaf to cover up its ruthless attempts to preserve the ability to extract huge profits from those artists.
Authoritarianism, barely concealed under the fig leaf of ‘democracy’, became its watchword.

Origin

Early 16th century: with reference to the story of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:7).

单词	fig leaf
释义	fig leaf noun 1A leaf of a fig tree, often used for concealing the genitals in paintings and sculpture.The young woman, whose speech and behavior reek of defiance bordering on dementia, disapproves of the puritanism that placed a plaster fig leaf over the genitals of a statue of God.... More sympathetic observers like Peter Kolb suggested that as a natural fig leaf it modestly concealed the female genitals. This was not the mythical Pan, half-man and half-goat, but a mature human male whose nudity was compromised only by the prominent fig leaf covering his genitals. 1.1A thing intended to conceal a difficulty or embarrassment: the amendment was just a fig leaf intended to cover the cracks in the party... They are a political fig leaf to cover the government's embarrassment over that. This is merely a fig leaf to cover up its ruthless attempts to preserve the ability to extract huge profits from those artists. Authoritarianism, barely concealed under the fig leaf of ‘democracy’, became its watchword. Origin Early 16th century: with reference to the story of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:7).
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