單詞
gobbledygook
['g?bldiguk]
基本信息
- n. 官樣文章
中文詞源
gobbledygook 令人費(fèi)解的文字，官樣文章
來(lái)自1944年美國(guó)德克薩斯州國(guó)會(huì)議員Maury Maverick杜撰的一個(gè)詞，模仿公雞叫的聲音來(lái)諷刺當(dāng)時(shí)過(guò)于冗長(zhǎng)的官樣文章。同時(shí)，值得注意的是，他本人是maverick這個(gè)詞的原創(chuàng)者M(jìn)averick的孫子。參照 maverick.
英文詞源
- gobbledygook (n.)
- also gobbledegook, "the overinvolved, pompous talk of officialdom" [Klein], 1944, American English, first used by U.S. Rep. Maury Maverick, D.-Texas, (1895-1954), a grandson of the original maverick and chairman of U.S. Smaller War Plants Corporation during World War II, in a memo dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language" and mock-threateaning, "anyone using the words activation or implementation will be shot." Maverick said he made up the word in imitation of turkey noise. Another word for it, coined about the same time, was bafflegab (1952).
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. When he asked questions, the answers came back in Wall Street gobbledygook.
- 他但凡提出疑問(wèn)，得到的回答全是華爾街的官樣文章。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. Of course , those words are gobbledygook on the whole.
- 這些話自然是官樣文章.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 3. No one likes to read or listen to government gobbledygook.
- 沒(méi)有人喜歡讀或聽(tīng)政府的官樣文章.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 4. They must have a full - time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook.
- 他們當(dāng)時(shí)一定是有一個(gè)專門(mén)炮制這類官樣文章的人員班底.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)
- 5. Patents in new fields often sound like gobbledygook, since each inventor makes up his own terminology.
- 新領(lǐng)域的專利經(jīng)常聽(tīng)上去像天書(shū), 因?yàn)槊總€(gè)發(fā)明者都去構(gòu)造出自己的一套術(shù)語(yǔ).
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