useful idiot

短语

有用的白痴

发音

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词形变化

useful idiots 复数 useful idiots

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A Communist sympathizer in Western countries, from the perspective of the political right.

    有用的白痴

    贬义 历史 政治
  2. 2.

    One who unwittingly supports a malignant cause through naive attempts to be a force for good.

    贬义 政治

词源

The earliest known usage in Western media is in a 1948 article in the social-democratic Italian paper L'Umanità – as cited in the New York Times article on Italian politics (see quotations). Often misattributed to Vladimir Lenin.

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