wooden language

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Speech or writing that is overly abstract, vague, metaphorical or pretentious in order to avoid addressing salient issues. derogatory,informal,uncountable
    — Of more consequence is the emergence of a phenomen which is perhaps peculiar to the modern world: the phenomenon which the French and Russians call “wooden language,” and which we might call, in honor of Orwell's satire, newspeak.

词源

Calque of French langue de bois.
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