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单词 bread and circuses
释义 bread and circuses
 something, as extravagant entertainment, offered as an expedient means of pacifying discontent or diverting attention from a source of grievance.
 [1910-15; trans. of L panis et circenses; from a remark by the Roman satirist Juvenal on the limited desires of the Roman populace]
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