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hot air (不可數)

  1. (本意) 热风热气
    The balloon was equipped with a burner to create hot air for lift.
    气球配备了一个产生热空气的加热器来产生升力。
  2. (俗語) 胡说八道空话大话
    • 1913, William MacLeod Raine, 章號 8, 出自 The Vision Splendid:
      "You'll never get anywhere so long as youse trail with that reform bunch. It's all hot air and tomfool theory."
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    • 1921, Alice Hegan Rice, 章號 28, 出自 Quin:
      "You give me a lot of hot air about your conscience. Why don't you get a soap-box and preach on the street-corners?"
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    • 2001 June 24, Johanna McGeary, "How Bad Is China?," Time (retrieved 22 Sept 2013):
      Some of the steam in Washington rises from real issues, but a lot is the hot air of partisan politics.
    • 2014 11月 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, 出自 New York Times[1]:
      Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.
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