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

  1. 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

    1. 胡说八道;胡扯;傻话
      If you say that what someone has said or written is guff, you think that it is nonsense.

      双语例句

      1. I still thought the young woman was in danger and urged her to get away but she stayed close by and continued to take guff from him, though less physical stuff.
        但是我仍然觉得那名年轻女子会有危险,所以我催促她赶紧离开.但是她去仍然紧紧地呆在男子身边,继续听他的责骂,虽然该男子已经没有怎么对她动手动脚了。
      2. Every year at around this time I hand out awards for paradigm-shifting, best-in-class management guff.
        每年的这个时候,我都会为一些改变人们语言范式的最胡扯管理用语颁奖。
      3. Don't let them give you any guff.
        别让他们跟你瞎废话。
      4. We suspect that there will be all sorts of self-justifying guff from them.
        我怀疑这里会充满各式各样胡说八道的自我辩白。
      5. 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。
      6. Forget all the guff about persuading fat westerners to eat less; spend more time trying to deal with infectious diseases in the developing world.
        忘记那些劝说西方肥佬们少食一些的废话;多花时间处理发展中国家传染病的问题。
      7. 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。
      8. Don't listen to their guff about wanting to see you again.
        别听他们的什么希望再见到你的鬼话。
      9. 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。
      10. 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。
      11. However, several things have happened to me recently to make me doubt the superiority of men at talking guff.
        然而,最近发生的几件事,让我对男性废话更多的观点产生了怀疑。
      12. Here also, Nottingham has the usual guff a boutique here, a vintage clothes shop there and a building which impressively avoids contemporary clich é s without being entirely successful.
        这里也有诺丁汉通常废话-精品在这里,一个老式的衣服店有-一个令人印象深刻的建筑,避免未经完全成功的当代陈词滥调。
      13. First, no customer is ever going to be moved by such hyped-up guff, unless to copy it out and forward it to me. Second, these declarations make one fear the bank is losing the plot generally.
        首先,除了抄写下来发给我之外,决不会有客户被这种自吹自擂的废话打动。其次,这些自夸使人担心瑞银在总体上丧失了理智。
      14. Most of what he said was just a load of guff.
        他说的大多数话只不过是一堆废话。
      15. However, I suspect from the tone of your message you have been asked to do something worse than put your name on distorted guff, and to do something you find morally objectionable.
        不过,从你言辞的语气猜测,你被要求做的事情比让你签署不诚实的鬼话更为糟糕,你是在被要求做道德上难以接受的事情。
      16. 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。
      17. Wow, that vice president guy can sure dish out the guff!
        哇,那位副总统肯定又滔滔不绝地讲一大堆废话。
      18. 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。
      19. The warm Guff Stream sweeping north and the frigid Labrador Current flowing south meet just off the New England coast.
        北上的墨西哥湾暖流与南下的拉布拉多寒流,在新英格兰海岸的附近相遇。
      20. According to Bowser, Williams "took no guff" from Almond or Almond's chief of staff.
        按鲍尔斯的说法,威廉姆斯根本不与阿蒙德及阿蒙德的参谋长“瞎扯蛋”。
      21. 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?
      22. Thus my first award in the 2010 Management Guff Awards is a brand new category for Daft New Names for Common Nouns.
        因此,2010年度管理废话奖的首个奖项是一个崭新的奖项:冠以普通名词愚蠢的新名奖。
      23. 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。
      24. 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。
      25. I've never heard so much guff!
        我从未听到过这么多的胡说八道!
      26. 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。

      英英释义

      noun

      1. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

          Synonym:    bunkbunkumbuncomberothogwash