lip service
空口的应酬话，口头上说得好听的话
同义词
参考例子
1.They paid only lip service to the need for research.
他们只是口头上说有必要进行研究工作。
2.He pays lip service to feminism but his wife still does all the housework.
他口口声声支持女权主义，但全部家务仍然是妻子的事。
3.America may have fondly imagined that its 1899 Open Door policy toward China, to which the other powers gave lip service, had stayed the process of division.
美国可能天真地认为，是它的1899年门户开放政策阻止了列强瓜分中国的进程。其实，列强当时只是口头上赞同美国的这个政策。
英文解释
n.
1.an expression of agreement that is not supported by real conviction
网络释义
lip service
口惠; 表面文章; 口惠而实不至; 没有诚意的保证;
lip-service
空头支票;
pay lip-service to
口头帮忙; 只说不做，唱高调; 只是嘴上说;
give lip service to
口头上承认; 口头上赞成; 口头上支持; 对...假装信奉;
pay lip service
敷衍;