claptrap
英 ['klæptræp]
美 ['klæp'træp]
- n. 讨好的言语或行为；哗众取宠的话
- adj. 讨好的
claptrap 蠢话，废话由clap 和trap 构成的合成词。原为舞台术语，指哗众取宠，吸引人鼓掌。
- claptrap (n.)
- c. 1730, "trick to 'catch' applause," a stage term; from clap (v.) + trap (n.). Extended sense of "cheap, showy language" is from 1819; hence "nonsense, rubbish."
- 1. This is the claptrap that politicians have peddled many times before.
- 这是政客们宣扬过无数次的废话。
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- 2. What a load of claptrap!
- 废话真多!
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- 3. Don't believe that political claptrap.
- 不要相信政客说的空话.
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