displacement activity

短语

替换活动

词形变化

displacement activities 复数 displacement activities

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Aimless, often self-comforting behavior displayed when in doubt, blocked or frustrated.

    心理学
  2. 2.

    Something done needlessly when procrastinating.

    At last week’s meeting of Infantino’s expanded Fifa Council – the world’s best attended displacement activity – there was instead much discussion of the proposal to bulk up football’s flagship tournament to 40 or 48 teams.

词源

First mentions in 1940 by two Dutch researchers Nikolaas Tinbergen and Adriaan Kortlandt

来源：wiktionary