中英互译
doublespeak
英 /ˈdʌblspiːk/美 /ˈdʌblspiːk/
基本释义
- n.欺人之谈,故弄玄虚的言词
双语例句
- That 20th-century connoisseur of doublespeak, George Orwell, would not have been surprised.那位20世纪“乌托邦”鉴赏家乔治•奥威尔(George Orwell),如若重返人间,断不会诧异。
- They noted the lack of outcry when a columnist declared that, for Catholics, "doublespeak and duplicity are second nature".他们还注意到当一个专栏作者宣称天主教徒的“第二天性是故弄玄虚和表里不一”时,竟然没有人出来反对。
- 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。
英英释义
- n.any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not
词源
- doublespeak模棱两可的话即两种说法都可以说通,模棱两可的话。