汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 美其名曰
美其名曰
to call by the glorified name of (idiom)
měi míng yuē
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

这地方美其名曰餐馆,其实只不过是个快餐店而已。

The restaurant was no more than a glorified fast-food cafe.

美其名曰:吧主的责任就是维护吧里的秩序。

The name: it is the responsibility of safeguarding it's order.

自此,人们就仿效此方法制作米线,且美其名曰:“蒙自过桥米线”。

From then on, others imitate the way to make rice noodle and call it by a good name of 'Mengzi Cross Bridge Rice Noodle'.

露西尔的家美其名曰称为城堡,尽管实际上跟一个大农场没什么区别。

Lucille's home was very grandly called a chateau, though in truth it was nothing more than a large farm.

因此,周六上班的纪律监督与服务质量依然不能松懈,不能让美其名曰“周六加班”成了“混水摸鱼”的幌子。

Therefore, the supervision on the discipline and service should not be any looser on Saturday.

就英国,她还有其他两本书,一本关于财政,另一本,他称之为“市民文化的衰落”,或稍文雅点(或美其名曰)“新民粹主义的兴起”。

He wrote two other books on Britain, one on the Treasury and one on what he called “the decline of civic culture” or, more politely, “the rise of the new populism”.

最近一款新型毯子在国外掀起了网络热销狂潮,这种毯子号称能让夫妻更恩爱,美其名曰"婚姻甜蜜毯",它可以完全吸收伴侣释放出来的臭屁,使另一半免遭"毒气弹"袭击!

The Better Marriage Blanket claims to make couples love each other more by quickly absorbing the odor of flatulence and saving couples from the affects of a "gas bomb".