double standard

英 [ˌdʌbl ˈstændəd]

美 [ˌdʌbl ˈstændərd]

n.  双重标准; 双重道德标准

Collins.1

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

• Western hysteria over attacks in western countries reinforces a jihadist argument: the western double standard.
  西方人对发生在自己国家的袭击案作出的歇斯底里反应，印证了圣战分子的一个论断：西方国家秉持双重标准。
• 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？
• Somehow I do understand that China thinks this is kind of double standard if similar companies or even military equipment would be sold to Saudi Arabia or Bahrain without second thoughts.
  如果我们将这俩公司卖给沙特和巴林，我能理解中国人会认为这是双重标准。
• Aren't you practicing double standard?
  你这不是双重标准吗？！
• And the deafing silence of blacks has drawn criticism on talk radio from some whites who say blacks have a double standard when victims of hate crime are whites.
  一些白人在电台谈话节目中对黑人在这起事件上装聋作哑、闭口不谈加以指责。他们说，当攻击性犯罪的受害者是白人时，黑人就采用双重标准。
• In this the US is treating the value of its currency as if it were a pure domestic issue, leading many in China to see a double standard.
  这么做，仿佛是把美元汇率当作单纯的国内问题来对待，这让许多中国人见识到了美国的双重标准。
• 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。
• 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？
• He's got a double standard: it's all right for him to have affairs but not for her.
  他采取双重标准：自己可以有外遇，女方却不行。
• This part mainly analyses the principle of double standard, differentiated in and outside, the standard of the intendment of being a shareholder and group consensus, and the effect of perfect trust system in the identification of the dormant contributors 'shareholder qualification.
  主要分析了双重标准、内外有别的原则和成为股东真意与团体合意的标准及信托制度的完善在隐名出资人股东资格认定中的作用。