guff
英 [ɡʌf]
美 [ɡʌf]
n. 胡思乱想; 胡说八道; 愚蠢的想法; 蠢话
BNC.37000 / COCA.34371
牛津词典
noun
- 胡思乱想；胡说八道；愚蠢的想法；蠢话
ideas or talk that you think are stupid
柯林斯词典
- 胡说八道；胡扯；傻话
If you say that what someone has said or written isguff, you think that it is nonsense.
英英释义
noun
双语例句
- Its "goodness" stems less from all that guff about corporate altruism than from Adam Smith's invisible hand.
它的天性来自于亚当斯密的“无形的手”而很少来自于公共团体的利他主义者。 - Instead, I was enraged by the transparently ludicrous guff promising me a planned overdraft to meet your needs.
相反，它许诺给我的是满足您需求的有计划透支&这种明显的无稽之谈把我激怒了。 - Even this standard food guff is misplaced.
就连这套关于食品的标准胡扯，也用错了地方。 - So it is no surprise that 2012 turned out to be yet another bumper year for guff, clich é, euphemism and verbal stupidity.
难怪2012年成为了又一个胡言乱语、陈词滥调、委婉语和蠢话大丰收的年份。 - But if they thought her schedule was busy, why did they think she would have time to read so much guff?
但是如果他们真的觉得她的日程排得很紧，又凭什么认为她有时间来读这么多废话呢？ - Maybe it is necessary to treat grown-up staff like babies because, contrary to any We-Act-Wisely guff, all office workers act remarkably unwisely when it comes to travel. Everyone travels far more than makes sense – except perhaps to airlines and hotels.
把成年的员工当作婴儿一样对待或许是必要的，因为，与我们行事明智之类的废话恰恰相反，在出差这件事上，所有坐办公室的上班族都表现得很不明智。 - Modern headhunters spout as much guff as management consultants, but without the excuse.
现代猎头的废话像管理顾问一样多，但他们没有借口。 - Tragicomically, the study found that bosses often believe their own guff, even if their underlings do not.
令人哭笑不得的是，调查显示，不管下属们信不信老板说的废话，反正老板们自己信了。 - My hostage to fortune for 2004 is that this sort of guff has peaked and will recede.
我敢打赌，在2004年，这类废话已经过了顶峰期，将会走下坡路。 - Truest of all are mathematical truths, and it is therefore upsetting to see them being pilfered shamelessly by innumerate managers eager to lend an aura of fact to what is usually a glob of guff.
但最真实的莫过于数学真理，因此当我看到数学盲经理人们无耻地盗用数学真理，渴望为一些无聊的废话披上真理的外衣时，我就会感到心烦意乱。