steelman

[计] 钢人

词形变化

steelmen 复数 steelmen steelmanned steelmanning steelmans 三单 steelmans steelmanning 现在分词 steelmanned 过去式 steelmanned 过去分词

别名

steel-man

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A masculine steelworker.

  2. 2.

    A stronger version of an argument that one is about to critically analyze.

v.
  1. 1.

    To repair flaws in an argument before analyzing it critically; to refute or to weaken the force of a stronger version of an argument than what was actually given.

词汇关系

词源

From steel + -man. For the second definition, coined as the inverse of straw man.

来源:wiktionary