Potemkin village

短语

矫饰的门面, 气度不凡的虚假外表(为取悦女皇叶卡捷琳, Grigory A. 波特金下令在她巡游经过的地方搭建了许多造型悦目的假村庄) [亦作 Potemkin Village]

词形变化

Potemkin villages 复数 Potemkin villages

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any false construct devised to disguise a shortcoming or improve appearances.

    习语

词汇关系

名词

上位词 3

fake sham postiche

词源

Calque of Russian потёмкинская деревня (potjómkinskaja derévnja), named for purported fake settlements erected at the direction of Russian minister Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea in 1787.

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