hypocrisy

• n. 偽善; 偽善

ギリシャ語のhypokrisis, stage performance, playから、hypo-, under, -kris, to separate, sift, commentから、語源はcrisis, criterionと同じ。古代ギリシャの舞台パフォーマンスの一形態、すなわち、スピーチの後に意見、コメント、推敲を加えることから、派生してperformance, playとなった。現在の偽善、hypocrisyの語源はこれか、またはhypo-, below, lacking, -kris, comment, opinion, すなわち、意見や見解をあえて述べない、本音を隠す、偽善、hypocrisyの派生語であろう。

hypocrisy (n.)

c. 1200, ipocrisie, from Old French ypocrisie, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from Greek hypokrisis "acting on the stage, pretense," from hypokrinesthai "play a part, pretend," also "answer," from hypo- "under" (see sub-) + middle voice of krinein "to sift, decide" (see crisis). The sense evolution in Attic Greek is from "separate gradually" to "answer" to "answer a fellow actor on stage" to "play a part." The h- was restored in English 16c.

Hypocrisy is the art of affecting qualities for the purpose of pretending to an undeserved virtue. Because individuals and institutions and societies most often live down to the suspicions about them, hypocrisy and its accompanying equivocations underpin the conduct of life. Imagine how frightful truth unvarnished would be. [Benjamin F. Martin, "France in 1938," 2005]

1. The baron became increasingly heated over the hypocrisy of it all.

男爵は物事全体の偽りにますます腹を立てている。

2.They left themselves wide open to accusations of double standards and hypocrisy .

彼らは二重基準と虚偽不実を非難される立場に陥らせた。

3.For them to attack the Liberals for racism is nauseating hypocrisy .

彼らが自由党を攻撃して人種差別をするのは吐き気を催す虚偽の行為だ。

4.I chalenged him on the hypocrisy of his political attitudes.

私は彼の偽りの政治的観点について質問した。

5.You 'll have little patience with the hypocrisy and double standards you encounter.

あなたは遭遇した偽善と二重基準に耐えられないだろう。