tokenism

美 [ˈtoʊkəˌnɪzəm] 　英 [ˈtəʊkəˌnɪz(ə)m]

同义词

英汉双解

1.	装点门面；表面文章；敷衍了事；应付差事the fact of doing sth only in order to do what the law requires or to satisfy a particular group of people, but not in a way that is really sincere

Appointing one woman to the otherwise all-male staff could look like tokenism.

给原本清一色的男职员队伍增派一位女性会显得是装点门面。

英汉解释

n.	1. 装门面;表面文章

英英解释

n.	1. the practice of doing something in order to make people believe that you are being fair and including all types of people and issues when this is not really true

例句

They are just a nod to public decency, a frilly piece of ~~tokenism~~ that first emerged in Thirties strip clubs.

它们只是在公众面前展示雅观的产物，是首先出现于30年代的脱衣俱乐部中的~~象征性~~的一小块布。

Despite pronouncements about being committed to ending apartheid, many US companies engage merely in ~~tokenism~~.

许多美国的公司尽管公开表示愿意终止种族隔离政策，但只是装点门面而已。

without any accusations of ~~tokenism~~. . .

没有任何对…的指责。

~~Tokenism~~ does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary impulse(Mary Daly)

装点门面这种做法并不改变社会制度的模式，反而可以巩固这种制度，因为它可以磨灭革命的冲动（玛丽戴利）

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