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It is a cliché that three topics should stay off-limits in polite company: politics, religion and sex.|| But there are times for hard conversations, and the language used to talk about sex, and particularly sexual misdeeds, remains wrapped in a gauze of misdirection and euphemism that risks contributing to harm, even when intentions are good.||
人们常说,在有礼貌的场合,有三个话题是不能谈的:政治、宗教和性。但有时会有艰难的对话,而用来谈论性,尤其是性犯罪的语言仍然被误导和委婉语所掩盖,即使本意是好的,也有造成伤害的风险。
Though, as is common practice in studies of this sort, participants were misled about its true nature, and were shown films and asked to do a language test afterwards, to support this misdirection , what Dr Attwood and her team were really interested in was how quickly the various drinks would be drunk.
虽然和做这类研究所惯用的手法一样,实验过程掩盖了本质,对参与者进行了误导,之后他们被带去看电影,做语言测试;而进行这种误导是因为,阿特伍德教授和她的团队真正感兴趣的是不同杯子里的饮品被喝光的速度。
noun
1.A wrong instruction given by a judge to a jury.
‘he won his appeal on the basis of a _misdirection_ by the trial judge’
‘He gave a fair and judicious summary of all the matters properly to be considered, and I find no _misdirection_ of the law.’
2.The action or process of directing someone to the wrong place or in the wrong direction.
‘the deliberate _misdirection_ that had put me off the track’
‘ _misdirections_ given by the coastguard to rescue services’
3.The wrong or inappropriate use or application of something.
‘the _misdirection_ of government funding’
‘wasteful _misdirections_ of production’
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