bread and circuses
基本解释
- 麪包和馬戯
英汉例句
- Thee whole news story smacks of bread and circuses—a conspiracy to keep the voters' minds off the major issues of the day!
整篇新聞報道微帶小恩小惠的味道，它企圖借此轉移選民對儅前主要問題的注意！ ！
www.moa.gov.cn - The Roman Emperors kept the common people content with bread and circuses.
羅馬帝國始終使老百姓滿足於麪包和馬戯。 - Too often local leaders resort to bread and circuses to keep themselves in office.
ECONOMIST: Indonesia - Maybe this is just an elaborate argument for bread and circuses.
FORBES: Better Angels or Bread and Circuses? - It is a fact that Roman bread and circuses produced a large leech class at a time when desperately needed manpower and resources for the Legions was scarce.
FORBES: Which Party is Responsible For Debt Impasse?
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- activities or official plans that are intended to keep people happy and to stop them from noticing or complaining about problems