doublespeak
英 [ˈdʌblspiːk]
美 [ˈdʌblspiːk]
n. 欺人之谈; 模棱两可的用词; 含糊其辞的说法
Collins.1 / COCA.36908
牛津词典
noun
- 欺人之谈;模棱两可的用词;含糊其辞的说法
language that is intended to make people believe sth which is not true, or that can be understood in two different ways
柯林斯词典
- N-UNCOUNT 含糊其辞的话;欺人之谈
If you refer to what someone says asdoublespeak, you are criticizing them for presenting things in a way that is intended to hide the truth or give people the wrong idea.- ...the doublespeak so fluently used by governments and their press offices.
被政府及其新闻办公室运用自如的欺人之谈
- ...the doublespeak so fluently used by governments and their press offices.
英英释义
noun
- any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
双语例句
- In a tweet this morning, Troy Wolverton, personal technology columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, described the release as "an amazing collection of Orwellian doublespeak."
《圣荷西信使报》(SanJoseMercuryNews)的消费科技专栏作家特洛伊•沃尔夫顿今早在Twitter上称,这篇新闻稿简直就是“一堆奥维尔主义式的欺人之谈。” - It also explores doublespeak in terms of rhetorical devices, namely, personification, dehumanization, metaphor, understatement and inflation.
这些欺人之谈常用的主要修辞手段包括拟人化、非人化、暗喻、低调陈述以及夸大其词等。 - What the reporters got from him was just political doublespeak.
记者从他那里所得到的,无非是官话。 - In the world of doublespeak dying is "terminal living"
在暧昧的语言世界中死亡就是“结束生命” - The word client has become Orwellian doublespeak.
客户一词已成为奥威尔(Orwell)式的故弄玄虚。