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15. Compliments: Make them backhanded or put a sarcastic spin the end.
赞美：请他们讽刺挖苦讽刺或放置一个旋转的结束。
16. That's rather a backhanded compliment.
那是一则挖苦的恭维话。
17. It was a backhanded compliment.
这是一句貌似恭维实为挖苦的反话。
18. Other backhanded compliments include " you ` re not as stupid as you look " and " you don ` t look as bad as I thought you would ".
其他表面恭维实则挖苦的话还有你不像你看起来那么愚蠢，或者你看起来不像我预料的那么糟。
19. Later, when she took a job managing former peers, she felt their jealousy in curt, backhanded compliments.
稍后，当她升职，开始管理以前的同行时，她感到了他们讥讽的恭维中所包含的嫉妒。
20. Attacks from tht source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity; a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal.
对他正直的品质的间接恭维式的攻击；达到目标的间接的、不诚实的方法。
1. backhanded的翻译
1. 隐含讥讽的；有言外之意的
A backhanded compliment is a remark which seems to be an insult but could also be understood as a compliment. A backhanded compliment is also a remark which seems to be a compliment but could also be understood as an insult.
e.g. 'Even my good reviews have tended to be backhanded compliments,' he says. 'They'll say I was good and almost unbearably grotesque.'...
“即便赞扬我的评论也多似明褒实贬，”他说。“他们会说我的表演不错，荒诞得几乎让人接受不了。”
e.g. Saying she's improved comes over as a backhanded compliment.
说她进步了听起来倒像是一种讽刺。
2. 拐弯抹角的；间接的
If you say that someone is doing something in a backhanded way, they are doing it indirectly.
e.g. In a backhanded way, I think a lot of my energy and strength comes from my campaigning.
我觉得我的活力和力量很多都间接来自于我的竞选运动。
1.
1. Warwick of " American Idol " said such backhanded fame has become part of the reality show formula.
adj
1. roundabout or ambiguous
e.g. attacks from that source amounted to a backhanded compliment to his integrity
a backhanded and dishonest way of reaching his goal
2. (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke
Synonym: backhand(a)