huffery-puffery
基本解釋
- n.夸夸其談的講話
英漢例句
- Puffery: Flattering, often exaggerated praise and publicity, especially when used for promotional purposes.
吹捧:尤指用于促銷的常是夸張的贊揚(yáng)和宣傳。 - It's all puffery and nonsense that can constrain and damage the mind and a life.
誰如果說這樣的生活會(huì)壓抑和損傷腦力和生命力,那絕對是胡說八道。 - Western courts tend to dismiss the claims of real estate agents as "mere puffery".
西方的法院傾向于駁回房地產(chǎn)商的申訴而僅僅因“夸大其詞”。 - The satirical magazine Spy threw darts at all the puffery of the era, and was especially fast to disdain the gaudy arrivistes in favor of dandruff-flecked Old Money.
一家叫《窺視》的諷刺雜志對那一時(shí)代的浮夸風(fēng)大肆抨擊,尤其鄙視那些愛炫耀的暴發(fā)戶,認(rèn)為那些老富翁更有品味,盡管他們的頭發(fā)上有頭屑。 - Might participants develop a non-conscious positive association with the department store, even after rejecting the ad as meaningless puffery?
參與者雖然對廣告中毫無意義的馬屁嗤之以鼻,但他們會(huì)在不知不覺中對這家百貨公司產(chǎn)生好感嗎?