Scare quotes are quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to imply that it may not signify its apparent meaning or that it is not necessarily the way the quoting person would express its concept. Thus, the quotes are used to establish a use–mention distinction, in a similar way as verbally prefixing a phrase with "[When referred to as "scare quotes", the quotation marks are suggested to imply skepticism or disagreement with the quoted terminology.
网络释义
1、重引号
但若使用的是着重引号（scare quotes），标点就不应包括在引号中。
短语
专业释义
英英释义
英汉双解大词典
scare quotes
1.
N-PLURAL（复数型名词）
quotation marks placed around a word or phrase to indicate that it should not be taken literally or automatically accepted as true 着重引号; 词或短语外的引号，表示不应该按照字面意义来理解该词或短语