double standard

英 [ˌdʌbl ˈstændəd]

美 [ˌdʌbl ˈstændərd]

n.  双重标准; 双重道德标准

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牛津词典

noun

• 双重标准；双重道德标准
  a rule or moral principle that is unfair because it is used in one situation, but not in another, or because it treats one group of people in a way that is different from the treatment of another

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 双重标准
  If you accuse a person or institution of applyingdouble standardsin their treatment of different groups of people, you mean that they unfairly allow more freedom of behaviour to one group than to another.
  1. Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards...
     斯塔基夫人指责当地警方采用双重标准。
  2. We cannot have a double standard where we say everybody else must play by the rules, but we do not need to.
     我们不能采用双重标准，即要求别人必须按章行事而我们自己却不必如此。

英英释义

noun

• an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another

双语例句

• When you see people abiding by a big fat double standard, step outside their duplicitous perspective by telling yourself that the craziness you feel is coming from the critic.
  当你发现人们带有某条很大双重标准，那么就可以对自己说你感到的疯狂是来自批评一方，从而走出他们的两面性看法中。
• Aren't you practicing double standard?
  你这不是双重标准吗？！
• There must not be a double standard whereby anti-nuclear proliferation is used as a pretext to limit or retard the peaceful use of nuclear energy by developing nations.
  不能采取双重标准，以防止核扩散为借口限制和损害发展中国家和平利用核能。
• Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards
  斯塔基夫人指责当地警方采用双重标准。
• For their own part, short-sellers complain of a double standard: why should a view that a company's shares are likely to fall be inherently less valid, and more worthy of suspicion, than a view that the shares will rise?
  卖空者方面抱怨存在双重标准：为什么与认为某公司股价会上涨的观点相比，认为股价可能下跌的观点就应该更难以成立，更值得怀疑？
• They claimed that this school uses a double standard to admit minorities.
  他们宣称这个学校在招收少数民族的学生时采用了双重标准。
• First, why addressed this question to women specifically? Why the double standard? Second, people are not created equal.
  第一，为什么解决这个问题的妇女特别？
• And make punitive damages in the amount of the double standard of compensation.
  并对惩罚性赔偿的数额采用双倍赔偿标准。
• We cannot have a double standard where we say everybody else must play by the rules, but we do not need to.
  我们不能采用双重标准，即要求别人必须按章行事而我们自己却不必如此。
• Critics accused the Obama administration of holding a double standard by being more lenient on financial institutions also receiving federal assistance.
  批评者指责奥巴马政府采用双重标准，对同样接受联邦救助的金融机构比较宽容。