back door
柯林斯词典
1. ADJ You can use backdoor to describe an action or process if you disapprove of it because you think it has been done in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way. 不正当的[ADJ n] [表不满]
Firms are using the programme as a backdoor way to replace domestic employees with cheaper labour. 公司正采取不正当的策略，用廉价劳工来取代本土员工。
Critics say this amounts to a backdoor amnesty for illegal aliens. 评论家认为这等于是对非法移民的变相特赦。
2. N-SING If you say that someone is doing something through or by the backdoor, you disapprove of them because they are doing it in a secret, indirect, or dishonest way. 不正当、秘密的手段['the' N, usu prep N] [表不满]
The government must not use this initiative as a means of resolving the pension problem through the back door. 该政府绝不可使用这种方式，采取不正当的措施解决养老金问题。
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backdoor /ˌbækˈdɔː/ (also back door)
剑桥词典
- [ 可数名词：有复数形式的名词 ]
a door at the back or side of a building , or at the back of a vehicle
（建筑或交通工具的）后门
There's someone at the back door . 后门处有一个人。
He opened the back door and gestured for her to get into the car . 他打开后门，示意她上车。
[ 单数名词 ]
used to refer to an indirect way of achieving something, especially so that people do not know about it and so cannot object to it
（比喻意义的）后门，不正当的秘密途径
HMI is to be privatised by the back door because the half of HMI who will not be employed by it will have to go and set up as private consultants . 皇家教育监督局其实是以一种偷偷摸摸的方式私有化，因为那部分不再被雇用的人员将不得不自立门户成为私人顾问。
The data collection exercise was designed to open the back door to an energy consumption tax on home owners . 资料收集的设计方式其实是为将来向房屋所有人征收能源消费税偷偷铺路。 返回 back door