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

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