jargon
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
美 /ˈd͡ʒɑɹ.ɡən/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
— Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.
- Alternative form of jargoon (“A variety of zircon”).
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A language characteristic of a particular group.
— They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.
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Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
— Cut the jargon and get to your point.
动词 v.
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To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
— Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].
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From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun (“chatter; talk; language”).
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