單詞
gobbledegook
['ɡ?bldi:,ɡu:k]
基本信息
- n. 冗繁而難解的文字或語言；冗長的官樣文章
英文詞源
- gobbledegook
- gobbledegook: [20] This word for pretentious or obfuscatory verbiage was the invention, in the 1940s, of Maury Maverick, Texan lawyer, chairman of the US Smaller War Plants Corporation and a descendant of the Samuel A. Maverick who gave English the word maverick. His explanation of its genesis, that it was probably suggested by ‘the old bearded turkey gobbler back in Texas, who was always gobbledy-gobbling and strutting with ludicrous pomposity’, stikes a disingenuous note in the light of the previously existing US slang phrase gobble the goo, meaning ‘perform fellatio’.
雙語例句
- 1. It's all gobbledegook to me.
- 這對我來說完全是天書。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. He added, " Even good news is covered with gobbledegook. "
- 他還補充說: “ 即使是好消息也是廢話連篇. ”
來自百科語句
- 3. " The original document was written in dreadful gobbledegook and actually said the opposite. "
- “ 而原文件中的意思卻正好相反,是由于文字非常糟糕而被翻譯給弄擰了. ”
來自百科語句
- 4. Civil Service documents are often written in gobbledegook that ordinary people cannot understand.
- 政府部門的文件中常使用術語,普通人看不懂.
來自辭典例句
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