词汇 | claptrap |
释义 | claptrap noun[ U ] informaldisapprovinguk /ˈklæp.træp/ us /ˈklæp.træp/ silly talk that means nothing and should not be believed: 胡言乱语;无聊的蠢话 Don't believe a word of what he says. It's just a load of claptrap.他的话一句也别信,不过是一派胡言。 Nonsense babble balderdash balls baloney blah blather blither double-talk doublespeak drivel eyewash flapdoodle garbage moonshine mumbo jumbo nonsense nonsensical nonsensically prattle rhubarb Examples of claptrapclaptrap It is not a woolly term like"management techniques"and"improved research"and all that gobbledegook and claptrap which we have heard so often. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is what the motion says, but it is bland claptrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I protest against the assumption that any line taken on a question like this either is or is not democratic, and that is all claptrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is all right to make a claptrap about it outside, but among responsible people there cannot be any doubt about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Are we to listen to more of this claptrap? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We traded a real and potential consumer power for a load of possible claptrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How that claptrap has been shown up in the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The only way to get that is to stick to the principle of conserving fuel and forget the emotional claptrap. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It might be very good electioneering claptrap, but it was not true. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 After all, we are not dealing, as he would have us believe, in political claptrap so much as in the future of our children. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want any claptrap about who is responsible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was not all the claptrap about utility and cruelty designed merely to con the hunting fraternity into thinking that he was interested in its views? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Who exactly among the managers who run the railway now will run the railway while all this bureaucratic claptrap is being put together? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let us have no more claptrap about that. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we were foolish to fall for what was a lot of claptrap, who dealt out the claptrap? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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