devil's advocate

devil's advocate

• • 【天主教】列圣审查官，负责指出加入圣徒者的缺点的教吏(天主教有死后追封人为圣徒的规定，审查时，由罗马教廷指定一教吏对候选人提反对意见)[亦称作promoter of the faith]
  • 吹毛求疵的人；专门抬扛的人；明知不对却坚持错误观点而争论不休的人，为争辩而故意持不同意见的人，故意唱反调的人

• imam
• Government National Mortgage Association
• preplastication
• shadow mask
• Saxonians
• bashfulnesses
• wild-goose chases
• prison camps
• self-deceit
• - one's socks off
• Calymene
• trockenbeerenauslese
• wealthy
• catabolizes
• ecoteur
• lumber up
• snake-danced
• - a treat
• evangelicals
• muggies
• go on the stump
• dehortation
• horsehair snake
• be more than the sum of
• prize ring
• dossels
• gastralgias
• emesis
• dustcovers
• stage diver
• accumulated total punching
• set up one’s bristles
• glamorisation
• alkalinizations
• hydroxyls
• electric rays
• toe and heel it
• boilerplate model
• O shell
• generalizability
• stint someone of something
• biasing
• soft landings
• language statement
• Galilean transformation
• autointrusion
• Ding an sich
• interosseous
• hypopnoea
• run(或 be, get, go) aground
• pernicious anemias
• chargepayers
• alligation
• censoriousnesses
• historic present
• breathe out
• puna
• from A to B
• bend sb to one’s will
• svy.
• Mata Hari
• Mucedinaceae
• aeroacoustics
• detonating fuses
• bellow
• redones
• MICE
• breast lining
• piaffes
• cardiac glands
• come to pass
• crampfish
• in waves
• neutral atmosphere
• cobbled
• spade lug
• timers
• situations vacant （或wanted）
• purpose-made
• disinclined
• dentalgia
• beech fern
• equestrianism
• go to the country
• overprotective
• alight from
• disintoxicate
• full of it
• caballos
• borehole
• brass instrument
• much to sb's surprise / embarrassment etc
• drinkable
• deflower
• ganglionitis
• wet dock
• monocultures
• bring sth in its train
• abscissins
• evzone