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。
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2. Of course , those words are gobbledygook on the whole.
這些話自然是官樣文章.
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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.
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4. They must have a full - time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook.
他們當(dāng)時一定是有一個專門炮制這類官樣文章的人員班底.
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5. Patents in new fields often sound like gobbledygook, since each inventor makes up his own terminology.