psychobabble

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈsaɪ.kəʊˌbæb.əl]
• 美式音标 [ˈsaɪ.koʊˌbæb.əl]
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基本解释

• n. 心理呓语

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• Worse, they can seem tacky, opportunistic and filled with psychobabble.
  而现代这些畅销书则不然，更糟的是，他们看起来是那么的俗气，仅仅是用心理学词汇填充的机会主义而已。
• Although the book avoids psychobabble, it is tempting to conclude that very personal factors influenced the women's choices.
  虽然这本传记也在避免心理呓语，但还是吸引人地总结了左右两人选择的每个个人因素。
• Beneath the sentimental psychobabble, there's a likeable movie trying to get out.
  在多愁善感的心理学呓语之下，一部本有可能受到喜爱的电影挣扎欲出。

权威例句

• But many share the left's sense of human vulnerability, and a surprising number have a weakness for psychobabble.
  ECONOMIST: Lexington
• The psychobabble of bereavement books bemuses him and all the classical wisdom that he has learnt and passed on to generations of students cannot help.
  ECONOMIST: Grief in fiction
• Brits seem to be more interested in pragmatic advice than psychobabble.
  ECONOMIST: How to succeed in publishing

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• language using a lot of words and expressions taken from psychology (= the study of the human mind)

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to language about people's feelings or behaviour as psychobabble, you mean that it is very complicated and perhaps meaningless.

专业释义

心理学

• 心理絮语，心理学行话，(尤指)心理疗法行话