hot air

英语

hot air (不可数)

(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。
(俗语) 胡说八道，空话，大话
- 1913, William MacLeod Raine, 章号 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, 章号 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?^{[永久失效链接]}," 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年11月6日, 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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