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straw man

稻草人,草民,秸秆人

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mass of straw formed to resemble a man, as for a doll or scarecrow.
    • : a person whose importance or function is only nominal, as to cover another's activities; front.
    • : a fabricated or conveniently weak or innocuous person, object, matter, etc., used as a seeming adversary or argument: The issue she railed about was no more than a straw man.

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Examples

  • It is, instead, a straw man that Rufo and his allies have constructed, leveraging anecdotes and incidents in a way that’s strikingly similar to the effort to prove that the 2020 election was somehow stolen.

  • He just needs to construct a straw man onto which he slaps that label and watch the politics fall into place.

  • Fauci also told Paul there’s no possibility the research in the paper Paul cited directly led to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, but Paul correctly called this out as a straw man.

  • “Foreign buyers are a bit of a straw man because sometimes they’re blamed for the ups, and sometimes they’re blamed for the downs,” Walkup says.

  • In the first episode, an officer is shown video of himself shooting and killing a man.

  • That man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.

  • It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.

  • But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.

  • He looks like a man who should have had kids, but now never will.

  • Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.

  • The supernaturalist alleges that religion was revealed to man by God, and that the form of this revelation is a sacred book.

  • The most High hath created medicines out of the earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

  • He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.