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单词 scare quote
释义
scare quote
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scare quote: scare quotes
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Even when her dates exceeded what Witt calls, in self-deprecating scare quotes, her “standards,” attraction failed to materialize.
The New Yorker(Oct 10, 2016)
No one fact-checked that statement; even the interviewer grasped that she was speaking figuratively and accordingly put scare quotes around “recruiting sergeant.”
Wall Street Journal(Aug 15, 2016)
The venerable debunking website Snopes.com weighed in to discredit Fryer’s paper, even putting scare quotes around its description of the “Harvard study.”
Slate(Jul 25, 2016)
n the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology
Hyper
inverted comma, quotation mark, quote
a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else
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