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单词 double-talk
释义 double-talk
I. \ˈ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ noun
1. : language that appears to be earnest and meaningful but in fact is a mixture of sense and nonsense : gibberish
 < double-talk … produces in the victim upon whom it is worked a strong suspicion that he is either hard of hearing or slowly going mad — Life >
2. : inflated, involved, and often deliberately ambiguous language : gobbledygook, jargon
 < lost in the miasma of double-talk, hypocrisy, and shortsightedness — R.E.Lauterbach >
 < writes the sort of double-talk which is all things to everybody — Max Lerner >
II. intransitive verb
: to use double-talk
 < go on double-talking with him, always skirting the main subject but never touching it — Philip Barry >
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