單詞
gobbledygook
['g?bldiguk]
基本信息
- n. 官樣文章
中文詞源
gobbledygook 令人費解的文字，官樣文章
來自1944年美國德克薩斯州國會議員Maury Maverick杜撰的一個詞，模仿公雞叫的聲音來諷刺當時過于冗長的官樣文章。同時，值得注意的是，他本人是maverick這個詞的原創者Maverick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).
雙語例句
- 1. When he asked questions, the answers came back in Wall Street gobbledygook.
- 他但凡提出疑問，得到的回答全是華爾街的官樣文章。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Of course , those words are gobbledygook on the whole.
- 這些話自然是官樣文章.
來自互聯網
- 3. No one likes to read or listen to government gobbledygook.
- 沒有人喜歡讀或聽政府的官樣文章.
來自互聯網
- 4. They must have a full - time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook.
- 他們當時一定是有一個專門炮制這類官樣文章的人員班底.
來自互聯網
- 5. Patents in new fields often sound like gobbledygook, since each inventor makes up his own terminology.
- 新領域的專利經常聽上去像天書, 因為每個發明者都去構造出自己的一套術語.
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