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double-talk

n.含糊其词的言谈,空话

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double-talk


n [U] way of talking that really means something very different from what it appears to mean, or nothing at all 指东说西或言之无物的话
*He gave us no real reasons, just the usual politician's double-talk. 他没告诉我们真正理由, 只说了些政客常说的空话. v [I, Tn.pr]
*double-talk one's way out of trouble 说含糊其词的话以摆脱困境.

double-talk


'double-talk
n[U]
speech that is complicated and can have more than one meaning, sometimes used deliberately to deceive or confuse people
British Equivalent: double-speak
 legal double-talk
1. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture,
    到会说话时,他就是传统文化塑造的一个小孩子;

2. C.You try to talk the young person into staying home a bit longer.
    c.你设法说服这个年轻人在家里稍微再多待一段时间。

3. Because people assume "you are what you say you are", they talk a lot to become acquainted with each other.
    由于人们以为“对你的了解是通过你对你自己的介绍”,因此他们就通过大量的交谈以结识对方。

4. But the satisfied customers — mostly women — didn't look like they could afford $3.99 a minute to talk to a psychic on the phone.
    但是这些心满意足的客户--大部分是女性--看上去似乎不愿意支付每分钟3.99美元的电话费来和一个通灵大师在电话里聊天。

5. Is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.
    就好像他本国语言的总词汇量和自己咿呀学语时他家庭所接纳的他的词汇量之比。

6. While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman.
    一次,他与妻子徒步旅行。途中,停下来与一个工人交谈,

7. When they had gone, the driver of the car came towards him. The man obviously wanted to talk.
    他们走后,汽车司机向他走来,这人显然是想聊天。

8. We need to have a talk with her. The news is full of stories about teenagers in trouble whose parents hardly know anything about their problems."
    我们得和她谈谈。新闻里报导的尽是惹上麻烦的青少年,可他们的父母却不知道自己的孩子有什么麻烦。"

9. It places a terrible strain on the mother-child bond by saddling the mother with the double burden of playing the role of both mother and father;
    离婚使得母亲既当母亲又当父亲而不堪重负,从而造成母子关系的紧张。

10. Their spaceship was equipped with a double door, which was fitted with a bellows between the ship and the outside.
    他们的太空飞船上装有两层门, 在这两层门之间, 即飞船与外界之间, 装有一个减压舱.

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