| 词汇 | buzzword |
| 释义 | buzzword noun[ C ] uk /ˈbʌz.wɜːd/ us /ˈbʌz.wɝːd/ a word or expression from a particular subject area that has become fashionable by being used a lot, especially on television and in the newspapers: （尤指在电视或报纸上频繁使用的）时髦词语 "Diversity" is the new buzzword in education.“多元化”是教育领域里新的时髦词语。 Linguistics: terminology & vocabulary abbreviated form accommodation alphabetic Americanism Anglicism antonym antonymous cognate coinage homography homonymic homonymy homophonic homophony productive productively receptive receptively referent vocab buzzword | American Dictionarybuzzword noun[ C ] us/ˈbʌzˌwɜrd/ a word or expression that is very often used, esp. in public discussions, because it represents opinions that are popular: "Listening to the people" was the buzz word among politicians. buzzword | Business Englishbuzzword noun[ C ] uk /ˈbʌzwɜːd/us MARKETING, COMMUNICATIONS a word or expression from a particular subject area that has become fashionable because it has been used a lot: Companies know there's nothing like a hot new buzzword, like ‘nanotechnology’ or ‘sustainability’, to get the attention of investors. Examples of buzzwordbuzzword Local history becomes global history or, as the new buzzword would have it, 'glo-cal' history. As far as fashion is concerned the tectonic has already become a buzzword, since we live in a world in which everything is readily absorbable. The principal buzzwords that students of the new movement will need to contend with are projection, mutation, and simulation. On the first page he notes that it 'is the most slippery, dangerous and important buzzword of the late twentieth century'. Also, one must, no matter the aversion to buzzwords, attend to media convergence. Liminality seems to have become something of a buzzword. Although "culturally sensitive" care has become a politically correct buzzword in healthcare recently, the use of the culture concept is often remarkably naive. But it is hardly more of a buzzword than any other adjectival nouns or gerunds. Or can we anticipate the impending doom on yet another short-lived buzzword of architectural criticism? In particular, the former tend to have their heads filled with buzzwords and have little appreciation of the difference between the latest marketing hype and foundational knowledge. The buzzword would soon be 'protest'. Alas, our ears have become so insensitive that we see nothing wrong with the current buzzwords, even when they are both cacophonous and imprecise. The remaining five words were more ('buzzword', 'canonicity', 'multicultural', 'privatize') or less ('downsize') familiar to the spellers. In computer sales and marketing, a new buzzword-ridden language has come into existence with the specific purpose of stunning the buyer so that he is open to a quick sell. Current buzzwords to be found in a proliferation of new or revised teaching materials claiming a basis in ongoing research include content or theme based, task based, and project based. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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