tokenism

tokenism

英 ['təʊk(ə)nɪz(ə)m]
　　美 ['tokənɪzəm]

n. 象征主義；裝門面；表面文章

中文詞源：

tokenism 象征主義，敷衍瞭事

token,象征，-ism,主義。

例句：

1. Is his promotion evidence of the minorities' advance, or mere tokenism?
他的晉升是證明瞭少數族裔的進步，還是僅僅為瞭裝點門面？

2. Appointing one woman to the otherwise all-male staff could look like tokenism.
給原本清一色的男職員隊伍增派一位女性會顯得是裝點門面。

3. Women have not even reached the level of tokenism that blacks are reaching.
婦女甚至尚未達到黑人正在達到的象征性水平.

4. Tokenism taken by the government can not change the disadvantageous position of the minority.
政府采取的這種象征性的政策並不足以改變少數民族的不利地位.