devil's advocate

英 [ˌdevlz ˈædvəkət]

美 [ˌdevlz ˈædvəkət]

n.  故意唱反调的人; 故意持不同意见的人

牛津词典

noun

• 故意唱反调的人；故意持不同意见的人
  a person who expresses an opinion that they do not really hold in order to encourage a discussion about a subject
  1. Often the interviewer will need to play devil's advocate in order to get a discussion going.
     采访者常常需要故意唱唱反调以使访谈继续下去。

柯林斯词典

• (讨论或辩论中)故意提出异议的人，有意唱反调的人
  If youplay devil's advocatein a discussion or debate, you express an opinion which you may not agree with but which is very different to what other people have been saying, in order to make the argument more interesting.

英英释义

noun

• someone who takes the worse side just for the sake of argument

双语例句

• I thinkpeople that can be a devil's advocate.
  我想有人会唱反调。
• Let me play the devil's advocate here.
  让我来唱黑脸。
• Let me play devil's advocate here for a minute and ask, why do women need to go to B-school?
  首先我想问句不该问的话：为什么女性要去读商学院？
• It's just in my nature to play devil's advocate, even on both sides in the same day.
  我总是会让人觉得我是在拥护邪恶的一方，甚至有时辩论的双方会同时这么看我。
• If I may play devil's advocate.
  要是让我来说几句不好听的话。
• He starred in devil's advocate as an ambitious lawyer.
  他在《魔鬼代言人》中主演一位野心勃勃的律师。
• This is when you need to sharpen your communication skills to play mediator as needed or even devil's advocate in many situations.
  这就是您需要加强交流技能的时候，以根据需要扮演中间人，甚至在许多情况下故意唱反调。
• Don takes the devil's advocate position and discusses this with Yael.
  Don这次带这一个魔鬼式的提倡者的意见和Yael讨论。
• Thinking for yourself, playing the devil's advocate and asking questions were not encouraged.
  自主思考、唱反调和提问题不受鼓励。
• Joe didn't really believe the things he was saying in the meeting, he was just playing devil's advocate.
  乔不是真的相信他在会上所说的，他只是故意唱反调而已。