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).
双语例句
1. When he asked questions, the answers came back in Wall Street gobbledygook.
他但凡提出疑问，得到的回答全是华尔街的官样文章。
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2. Of course , those words are gobbledygook on the whole.
这些话自然是官样文章.
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3. No one likes to read or listen to government gobbledygook.
没有人喜欢读或听政府的官样文章.
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4. They must have a full - time staff to dream up all this gobbledygook.
他们当时一定是有一个专门炮制这类官样文章的人员班底.
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5. Patents in new fields often sound like gobbledygook, since each inventor makes up his own terminology.