- 1自我欺騙；自欺（成語「自欺欺人」就是這件事）
Self-deception is when you make yourself believe that something is true when it is not. Nobody else has to lie to you; you do the lying, and often you do not stand in front of a mirror and announce it. You might tell yourself the exam will be easy, the job is fine, or the friend did not mean it, when the facts on the table say otherwise. It is a fairly formal, slightly psychological word — novels, advice, and serious talk use it; children rarely say it. Though actually, it is not always a big dark plot. Small self-deception happens all the time: “I’ll start tomorrow,” “one more will not matter.” The point is not that you are stupid. The point is that the softer story hurts less right now, so part of you protects it. People also say deceive yourself or live in denial for nearby ideas. The picture to hold: the liar and the listener are the same person.
From the word’s history
From self- + deception.
由 self-「自己」加 deception「欺騙」組成。
組成From self- + deception. Self- is from Old English self, “one’s own person”; deception is the noun from deceive: making someone believe a false thing.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
self-deceptionnoun
- 1
The act of fooling oneself, of willfully not accepting the obvious.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。