crocodile tears

英 [ˈkrɒkədaɪl teəz]

美 [ˈkrɑːkədaɪl terz]

n.  鳄鱼的眼泪; 假慈悲

柯林斯词典

• N-PLURAL 鳄鱼的眼泪;假慈悲
  If someone is cryingcrocodile tears, their tears and sadness are not genuine or sincere.
  1. The sight of George shedding crocodile tears made me sick.
     看到乔治假慈悲，我感到恶心。

英英释义

noun

• a hypocritical display of sorrow
  1. the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma
  2. politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed

双语例句

• Are you that kid from crocodile tears?
  你演过“鳄鱼的眼泪”里的小孩？
• She shed crocodile tears when she dismissed him for his job.
  她解雇他时，故意装作流下了同情的眼泪。
• He wept a few crocodile tears over his wife's death and then go married again at once.
  他假惺惺地为妻子的死掉了几滴眼泪，然后，很快又结婚了。
• I do not know how Nancy can shed crocodile tears about Philip's accident – she's been looking for an excuse to stop seeing him for weeks now.
  我不知道南希能如何对菲利普的事故发假慈悲－数周来她一直在寻找借口不去看他。
• She also feels that the people who shed the biggest crocodile tears are not necessarily the most concerned. Leather made from the hide of one of these reptiles.
  她还认为，那些鳄鱼眼泪掉得最多的人不是最关心这些人的人。
• Hey, aren't you that kid from crocodile tears?
  嗨，你不会是“鳄鱼眼泪”片子中的那个小子吧？
• My classmate kept saying how regretful he was that I hadn't passed the college entrance exam, but they're just crocodile tears.
  我的同学一直在说他为我没有考上大学而遗憾。但是，那只是表面上的同情而已。
• Get out, don't shed crocodile tears to me; you know you are really glad they've met with misfortune.
  走开，别在我面前假惺惺的了；你自己明白，对他们遭到不幸你是暗自高兴的。
• The beast in the above photo never actually "cries crocodile tears", because they do not have tear ducts, and cannot weep.
  上图所显示的野兽其实从来都不流泪，因为他没有泪腺。
• To shed crocodile tears.
  鳄鱼的眼泪。