這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字,意思沒有關係, 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 胡扯;虛偽的空話 · (英式)薄荷硬糖

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humbug

noun, verb, interj

One way to hold this centre: a fine-sounding speech that turns out to be an empty box. The words are warm, important, full of good feeling — and there is nothing inside them. From that box you can reach everything here: the talk itself, the one-word answer you throw at it, the act of using such talk on somebody, and the person who lives by it.

可以想成一個包裝得很漂亮的盒子,打開卻是空的。話說得溫暖、體面、義正辭嚴,但裡面沒有東西。humbug 這一組意思都可以從這個盒子看出去:那些空話本身、你回敬它的那一聲「胡說!」、用這種話去唬別人的動作,還有整天靠這種話過日子的那個人。

A second word, same spelling

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humbug

noun

A second, separate centre, and it is something you can put in your mouth: a hard little sweet the size of a thumb, striped dark brown and cream, tasting of peppermint, sold by weight in a paper bag. It is not soft, so you suck it and it lasts. Whether this picture has anything at all to do with empty talk is not known, so it is kept apart here rather than forced into the same story.

這是另一個獨立的中心,而且是一個真的可以放進嘴裡的東西:拇指大小的硬糖,深褐配米白的條紋,薄荷味,在英國多半是秤重裝紙袋賣的。因為很硬,所以是含的,可以含很久。這顆糖跟「空話」那一組到底有沒有關係,並沒有人說得準,所以這裡把它單獨放,不硬編一個故事把兩邊接起來。

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