| 单词 | Potemkin village |
| 释义 | Potemkin village a pretentiously showy or imposing façade intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact or condition. Also, Potemkin Village. [1935-40; after Prince POTËMKIN, who allegedly had villages of cardboard constructed for Catherine II's visit to the Ukraine and the Crimea in 1787] |
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