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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。