gobbledygook官样文章

【使用地区】：美国

【释义】：

Obscure，verbose，bureaucratic language characterized by circumlocution and jargon，and usually refers to the meaningless officialese turned out by government agencies．The late representative Maury Maverick coined the word in 1944 when he was chairman of a congressional committee．He wrote a memo condemning such officialese and labeled it gobbledygook，later explaining that he was thinking of the gobbling of turkeys while they strutted pompously．

指费解的、浮夸的官僚语言，其特征是拐弯抹角，空洞乏味，通常指政府机构所写的毫无意义的公文语。已故的众议院议员Maury Maverick在1944年在国会任一个委员会主席时创造了该词。他写了一份备忘录，指责这种公文语，并称其为gobbledygook。后来他解释说，他想到的是火鸡趾高气扬地走路时发出的咯咯叫声。