词为我用 - glib

词汇释义

glib TEM8  GRE

UK  /ɡlɪb/ US  /ɡlɪb/

adj, If you describe what someone says as glib, you disapprove of it because it implies that something is simple or easy, or that there are no problems involved, when this is not the case. 轻率的，随便说出口的

外刊例句

1. I was a glib idiot for saying I was not proud of my hometown".(The Guardian)

2. It is easy, this close to the end of a season, to make glib statements about football being a matter of life and death.(The Guardian - Sport)

3. I realise that people think they must set out their manifesto but, as Guardian columnists and letter-writers have argued, this is no time to rush into glib analyses and over-simple solutions.(The Guardian)

4. The glib answer is always "not enough politicians resign for such reasons" – as distinct from being one of a steady trickle of ministers and MPs forced out by errors or personal misconduct, real or cooked up by Fleet Street.(The Guardian)

5. It may be glib to point out that more 18- to 24-year-olds voted in a Big Brother eviction poll than in the election, but it is a telling fact.(The Guardian)

6. Clegg was just glib and irrelevant, acting as if he'd been in opposition for the last five years rather than in government.(The Guardian - Opinion)

7. Statements like that will no doubt prompt the glib to accuse locals of living in an aspiration-free zone: a mental Benefits Street.(The Guardian)

8. But the slaughter still mocks Mr Obama's pieties about interdependence, and his glib plans for win-win diplomacy.(The Economist)

9. Not to be overly glib, but it might be the equivalent of Barack Obama's campaign speech on race.(The Economist)

10. But a conflict that has lasted 100 years is not susceptible to easy solutions or glib judgments.(The Economist)

11. Ms Sawhill finds this too glib.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

glib people, statement, plan, judgement, explanation, talk

词汇来源

1590s, "smooth and slippery," a dialect word, possibly a shortening of obsolete glibbery "slippery," which is perhaps from Low German glibberig "smooth, slippery," from Middle Low German glibberich, from or related to glibber "jelly," all part of the Germanic group of gl- words for "smooth, shining, joyful," from PIE root *ghel- (2) "to shine." Of words, speakers, etc., from c. 1600. Related: Glibly; glibness.

近义词

slick, silky, insincere, facile, shallow, superficial, simplistic, oversimplified, easy

反义词

sincere, thoughtful

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