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单词 sour grapes
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
sour grapes /ˈsaʊr ˈgreɪps, saʊɚ/USA pronunciation  n. [plural]
  1. pretended dislike for something one wants but does not have.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
sour grapes, 
  1. pretended disdain for something one does not or cannot have:She said that she and her husband didn't want to join the club anyway, but it was clearly sour grapes.
  • in allusion to Aesop's fable concerning the fox who, in an effort to save face, dismissed as sour those grapes he could not reach 1750–60

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
sour grapes n
  1. (functioning as singular) the attitude of affecting to despise something because one cannot or does not have it oneself
Etymology: from a fable by Aesop
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