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hog·wash
hag wash [or] hawg wash
noun
scraps or garbage given to hogs; swill.
nonsensical, meaningless, or worthless talk or writing.The senator's promises were hogwash.
15世纪中期, hogges wash,“喂猪的厨房垃圾,厨房或酿酒厂的废料”,源自 hog(n.)和 wash(n.)。扩展到“廉价酒”(1712年),然后是“劣质写作”(1773年)。
The first known use of hogwash was in the 15th century
hogwashnoun
swill entry 2 sense 1
nonsense sense 1
1 Three Porko piglets are going out to the local disco. "That's a lot of hogwash !" one of the piglets cried.
3只小猪正准备出门去当地的迪斯科,但其中一只小猪大喊:“别废话了!
2 But no hogwash or baloney: Would anything ever pass if they were?
3 But that's hogwash, experts say.
4 It was hogwash, he said, that this case had anything to do with preserving local control of school districts.
5 Hogwash oil refers to oil extracted from oily floats in the drain or leftover food from hotels or restaurants.
地沟油指从下水道的浮油或饭店餐厅的泔水提炼的油。
6 Which is pure hogwash.
7 “My father says it’s ‘hogwash,’” Link puts in.
8 Conservatives’ claims that this bill will break the bank are plainly hogwash.
9 That’s just hogwash.
10 There’s a whole lot of hogwash in “Secret of Water,” a cheesy documentary stuffed full of pseudoscience masquerading as profound truth.
11 So this idea that all wealth is inherited — it's absolute statistical hogwash.
12 Yet the unspoken interstices of the story, to which Mackintosh delicately draws the reader’s attention with haunting, oblique prose, emphasize just how much hogwash the parents are feeding their daughters.
13 “It is sentimental hogwash, but the freshmen are, I think, secretly proud to see their university on the screen.”
14 It’s a comedy afraid of being too funny lest its macho sentimentality seem even more ridiculous than it is, and a drama afraid of appearing too serious lest you dismiss it as hogwash.
15 “Quite frankly, I think this is hogwash, and I think the way this has been spun is disingenuous and upsetting,” he said.
16 That's a bunch of hogwash.
那全是一堆废话。
17 The public’s opinion, other foundations’ opinions, “experts’ ” and snoopy other wealthy people’s opinions are hogwash.
18 I don't believe it, because that's just a bunch of hogwash.
我不相信它,简直是一堆胡言乱语。
19 Unfortunately, the director's defence of The Killer Inside Me is hogwash.
20 And a lot of hogwash refers to something considered worthless, misleading or false.
alotof hogwash表达的是一些公认的没有价值、易让人误解的或者错误的事情。
1 废话
prittle-prattle talk wind tale jazz trash tripe cackle gab humbug guff twaddle poppycock folderol cobblers piffle gup falderal squit fiddlestick fudge shit bull crap nonsense cock rot padding rubbish blah bullshit COD bunk toffee cobbler crud applesauce bilge moonshine drivel baloney wack gammon malarkey hokum crapola balderdash cack bunkum codswallop tosh flimflam blague keech flummery tommyrot flapdoodle fiddle-faddle fiddle-de-dee bushwa mullock bulldust blatherskite codology pants balls bollocks kidstakes garbage rhubarb blather gabble horseshit stuff punk pap mouthwash gibberish verbiage yammer claptrap palaver blarney trumpery haver taradiddle stuff and nonsense fiddlesticks hooey falderol truck wash toy phrase junk mush slush jive bleat prattle tootle bosh buncombe surplusage blither bushwah pipefest bilge water poppy cock ballocks horsefeathers clamjamfry schmegeggy kafooster chicken vanilla spinach yak quack chaff burble malarky blether cagmag
2 胡说
tilly-vally horsefeathers ball shit crap rot blah bullshit bunk fudge crock mush cobbler applesauce drivel baloney babbling gammon guff horseshit hooey poppycock folderol bunkum codswallop flimflam bosh piffle trumpery tommyrot flapdoodle falderal squit drool haver smatter fiddlestick rat bull nonsense cock COD rhubarb toffee bilge tripe malarkey eyewash cack phooey tosh fiddle-de-dee bulldust waffle jive twaddle my eye
3 胡说八道
blithering tosh COD bunk ball bull slaver eyewash balderdash bunkum codswallop bollocks falderal twaddle gammon stuff and nonsense my eye tripe baloney guff piffle a crock of shit a crock stuff balls hooey talk through your hat a load of crap claptrap raving horsefeathers bulsh kid shit junk spinach cod rhubarb cobbler bop humbug poppycock folderol pillock cods galimatias bulldust rave fudge drool haver full of hops tripped out
4 猪食