weasel word

美 　英

• n.滑頭話；含糊其詞的話；推諉詞
• 網(wǎng)絡(luò)例句；黃鼠狼語言

詞形變化

復(fù)數(shù)：weasel words  

英漢解釋

n.	1. a word that someone uses to avoid saying what they really mean

例句

"HAZE" is a weasel word for the eye-stinging, throat-rasping smog that periodically engulfs parts of South-East Asia.

這場煙霧刺眼嗆嗓，定期吞沒東南亞部分地區(qū)，用“陰霾”一詞形容，有些閃爍其辭。

This guy is made for the job. If you take out every weasel word, all that's left is "a of with and in the" , which I think I rather prefer.

這個家伙很適合這項(xiàng)工作。如果把所有滑頭話去掉，那么剩下的只是“一個、的、以及、在”了，我認(rèn)為我還不如只看這幾個詞呢。

So identify the weasel word and get out the two definitions - and show that somebody is flipping one or the other- is the way to do that.

所以我試著定義這一狡猾的詞語，得到兩個定義，并展示有的人拋棄一個或另外一個-，是正確的方法。

A weasel word is a modifier that almost contradicts the claim that is made.

“鼬鼠”型的詞語是一種修飾語，與廣告詞的意思幾乎是相矛盾的。