devil's advocate
US /ˈdɛvəlz ˈædvəkət/
・UK /ˈdevəlz ˈædvəkət/
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idm.故意提出異議的人
She played devil's advocate to test the proposal thoroughly.
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- for Chris Chris I think your memo hit the nail on the head but let me play devil's advocate for a
對於 Chris ，我認為你的備忘錄擊中了要害，但讓我扮演一個魔鬼代言人
- but let me play devil's advocate for a minute.
什麼是道地慣用語？身為英文學習者你真的該使用它嗎？（What is Idiomatic Language? Should you use it?）
- "To play devil's advocate." This is both an idiom or a collocation, because we often use "devil's advocate" by itself as well.
它的意思是走捷徑。
- "To play devil's advocate" means to propose the opposite opinion.
所以，如果我們說一家公司 cut corners，意思就是他們在欺騙消費者，或者如果他們不依法行事，就是在欺騙法律體系。
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- But I think to play devil's advocate for a bit, another way to interpret it, and I don't know like the entire details, but the alternative thing would be that to process an individual request, because this email seems to be specifically about Echo devices, but not all Alexa devices are Echo devices.
但我認為，如果要玩一下 "魔鬼代言人 "的遊戲，還可以用另一種方式來解釋，我不知道全部細節，但另一種方式就是處理個人請求，因為這封郵件似乎是專門針對 Echo 設備的，但並不是所有的 Alexa 設備都是 Echo 設備。
- But I think to play devil's advocate for a bit, another way to interpret it—and I don't know, like, the entire details—but the alternative thing would be that to process an individual request—because this email seems to be specifically about Echo devices, but
我能找到的最好的文章是 Verge 的這篇文章。
Windows 筆記型電腦到底怎麼了？🤔 (What's Going on with Windows Laptops?)
- Well, I want to play devil's advocate because as someone who's, like, fully Apple, you know, ecosystemed up, there are a lot of these, like, vertically integrated things in the Apple world that are, like, not supported to the degree they should be.
我個人非常喜歡 Android 勝過 iOS。
- Well, I want to play devil's advocate because as someone who is like fully Apple, you know, ecosystemed up, there are a lot of these like vertically integrated things in the Apple world that are like not supported to the degree they should be.
嗯，我想扮演一下魔鬼代言人，因為像我這種完全身處 Apple 生態系的人，Apple 世界裡有很多垂直整合的東西，並沒有得到應有的支援。
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- And they're also the ones to be the devil's advocate and notice flaws in ideas and concepts
而且他們也是魔鬼的代言人，注意到思想和概念的缺陷。
- and they're also the ones to be the devil's advocate and notice flaws in ideas and concepts.
他們說話從來不是為了讓別人聽到，或者因為他們是老闆。他們說話是為了協助和幫助別人，因為內向的人把自己想象成相當的人。
美國消費支出停滯，GDP慘遭重擊！ (US Consumer Spending Stalls, GDP Takes a Hit)
- I just wanted to play devil's advocate.
所以這就是接下來會發生的爭論。
- I just wanted to play devil's advocate.
我只是想唱反調一下。
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- Just to play devil's advocate, but you could buy that property, rent it out, get someone to manage and do all that crap for you.
我想說的是，你可以買下那處房產，然後租出去，找人幫你管理，幫你做這些破事。
- Just to play devil's advocate,
你將獲得 1.2 億美元的混合 20 年長期抵押貸款。
