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单词 scare quotes
释义

scare quotes

plural noun
Quotation marks placed round a word or phrase to draw attention to an unusual or arguably inaccurate use.I carefully put scare quotes around words such as ‘pleasure’ and ‘suffering’ in describing positive and negative emotional states....
  • It is difficult not to put scare quotes around the word spiritual, which is notoriously vague, if not meaningless, in contemporary usage.
  • I can't imagine scare quotes big enough for that word.
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