cynic是什么意思

双语用例

• Not a book to recommend to the cynic.

• This willingness to condemn the generalised 'other', while apparently condoning one's own family members, might appear to the cynic as mere hypocrisy.

• Indeed, a cynic like myself would argue that community regeneration is really about co-option and the imposition of the culture and objectives of the dominant 'partners'.

• A cynic might argue that if we concentrate research on looking for social cohesion and active human agency, then that is what we are most likely to find.

• Paul either did not know these stories, or felt that they were not important (cynics argue that they had not yet been 'invented').

• Such cynics saw honour as a matter of rank and preferment, to be gained by noisy shows of loyalty and the traditional swaggering bravado of the braggart soldier.

• The soldiers have been taught to be cynics by the confidence tricks of past pay rises.

• Some cynics, when we first set up this scheme, said that we were merely teaching potential burglars to be more athletic.