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单词 gobbledegook
释义
gobbledegook
noun[U]
informaldisapproving(alsogobbledygook)
uk
/ˈɡɒb.əl.di.ɡuːk/us
/ˈɡɑː.bəl.di.ɡuːk/
language,especiallyused inofficialletters,forms, andstatements, thatseemsdifficultor tomeannothing because you do notunderstandit:
（尤指公文用语中）复杂而无实质内容的语言，冗长而费解的文字；官样文章
Thiscomputermanualiscompletegobbledegook.这本计算机使用手册完全是本冗长的天书。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Nonsense
  • a crock (of shit)idiom
  • babble
  • balderdash
  • balls
  • baloney
  • bilge
  • blah
  • blather
  • blither
  • double-talk
  • doublespeak
  • drivel
  • eyewash
  • flapdoodle
  • moonshine
  • mumbo jumbo
  • nonsense
  • nonsensical
  • piffle
  • rhubarb
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(Definition ofgobbledegookfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgobbledegook

gobbledegook
Is it any wonder that the result is sometimes laws which are written ingobbledegook, whose meaning is so unclear that even the lawyers can't agree on it?
From theCambridge English Corpus
Unfortunately, some managementgobbledegookhas crept in too; things like, "360 degree feedback".
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Will he ensure that licence payers get better value for money by having more spent on programmes and journalists and less ongobbledegookmanagers?
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Our proposals will enable parents to make their own judgments without being barraged with a lot of sociologicalgobbledegook.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is verbose; it is full ofgobbledegook; it contains a great deal of technocratic mumbo-jumbo; and it is special pleading.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It is not a woolly term like"management techniques"and"improved research"and all thatgobbledegookand claptrap which we have heard so often.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
The fact remains, however, that recipes are now all printed in what isgobbledegookto most people.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He described article 3b as a "prime example ofgobbledegook".
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
He has come up with so muchgobbledegookthat we need clarification.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
What awfulgobbledegookwe are subjected to these days!
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
When most ordinary people read our legislation, they consider it to begobbledegook; they cannot understand it.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is the answer—in a couple of dozen words, not ofgobbledegookbut of straightforward business talk.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
I do not regard the code of guidance asgobbledegook, but it is slightly fearsome.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Most of it isgobbledegookand comes to no real conclusion about the benefits of so-called zero inflation and price stability.
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I do not wish to insult the promoters or those who gave evidence with the best of intentions, but it reads likegobbledegookto me.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
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