spin doctor

短语

n. 狡辩老手

发音

US

词形变化

spin doctors 复数 spin doctors spin doctored spin doctoring spin doctors 三单 spin doctoring 现在分词 spin doctored 过去式 spin doctored 过去分词

别名

spindoctor

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person employed to gloss over a poor public image (or present it in a better light) in business and politics, especially after unfavourable results have been achieved; a lobbyist; a PR person.

    公关专家

    商务 政治

    Many believed that the reduction in public spending was a disaster but the spin doctors presented it as a triumph for lower taxation.

v.
  1. 1.

    To generate spin (a favorable interpretation or bias).

    习语 及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

spinmeister

词源

From spin (“a favorable comment or interpretation”) + doctor. First use appears c. 1984 in the New York Times.

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