Glib
[glɪb]
解释:
(adj.) artfully persuasive in speech; 'a glib tongue'; 'a smooth-tongued hypocrite' .
(adj.) having only superficial plausibility; 'glib promises'; 'a slick commercial' .
(adj.) marked by lack of intellectual depth; 'glib generalizations'; 'a glib response to a complex question' .
本校对--From WordNet
解释:
(superl.) Smooth; slippery; as, ice is glib.
(superl.) Speaking or spoken smoothly and with flippant rapidity; fluent; voluble; as, a glib tongue; a glib speech.
(v. t.) To make glib.
(n.) A thick lock of hair, hanging over the eyes.
(v. t.) To castrate; to geld; to emasculate.
校对:佩德罗
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Smooth, slippery.[2]. Voluble, fluent, ready, talkative, flippant, nimble of speech, ready in speech, of a ready tongue.
v. a. Castrate, geld, emasculate, deprive of virility.
校对:拉弗尔斯
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Slippery, voluble, smooth, fluent, ready, talkative, flippant
ANT:Rough, abrupt, hesitating, stammering, Glimmer,[See GLARE]
整理:塞丽娜
解释:
adj. moving easily: voluble.—v.i. to move freely.—adv. Glib′ly.—n. Glib′ness.
n. (Spens.) a bush of hair hanging over the eyes.
v.t. (Shak.) to emasculate to castrate.
整理:米切尔
例句:
- Not quite so glib with this answer as with the previous two, Mr Riderhood gave in the definition, 'Waterside character. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- It is too widespread for any such glib explanation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- The Count's glib cynicism had revealed a new aspect of his nature from which we both recoiled. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Nobody's at home at present,' returned the child, with a glib assertion of her dignity, 'except the person of the house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- That, observes Sir Leicester with unspeakable grandeur, for he thinks the ironmaster a little too glib, must be quite unnecessary. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- I know that syndicalism means a revision of some of our plans--that it is an intrusion upon many a glib prejudice. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
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