- 1新聞腔、報紙體（貶義）——指記者那種浮誇、公式化的用語。和 legalese（法律腔）、officialese（官腔）是同一類詞
The particular kind of English that newspapers write in — and the word is nearly always an insult.
The particular kind of English that newspapers write in報紙寫文章用的那種特定英文 — and the word而這個詞 is nearly always幾乎總是 an insult帶罵意的.
It names the habits reporters fall into when they need to say a lot in a small space: short dramatic words that no one uses in speech ('probe' for investigation, 'slam' for criticise, 'blast', 'vow', 'axe', 'bid'), people who are never simply named but are always 'tragic mum' or 'love rat', crowds that 'slam' and talks that are 'crisis talks'.
It names的是 the habits習慣 reporters fall into記者會養成的, when they need to say a lot in a small space當他們需要在小空間裡講很多事的時候: short dramatic words簡短誇張的詞 that no one uses in speech沒有人講話會用的 ('probe' for investigation'probe' 代替 investigation, 'slam' for criticise'slam' 代替 criticise, 'blast'還有 'blast', 'vow''vow', 'axe''axe', 'bid''bid'), people who are never simply named那些從不被直接稱呼的人 but are always而總是被叫做 'tragic mum'「悲情媽媽」 or 'love rat'或「花心男」, crowds that 'slam'用「slam」形容的群眾 and talks that are 'crisis talks'還有叫做「crisis talks」的會談.
To call a piece of writing journalese is to say it sounds second-hand and overheated, made of phrases that arrived ready-made instead of being thought out.
To call a piece of writing把一篇文章叫做 journalese journalese is to say就是說 it sounds second-hand and overheated它讀起來像二手貨、又浮誇, made of phrases是由詞組拼成的 that arrived ready-made那些現成拿來用的詞組 instead of being thought out而不是想出來的.
Teachers and editors use the word as a warning.
Teachers and editors老師和編輯 use the word用這個詞 as a warning當作警告.
It belongs to a small family of words built the same way for a group's own tired language — legalese for lawyers, for governments, computerese, and the best-known of them, gobbledygook's cousin bureaucratese.
It它 belongs to屬於 a small family of words一小群詞 built the same way用同樣方式造出來的 for a group's own tired language給某個圈子自己那種用膩了的語言 — legalese for lawyers律師的 legalese, officialese for governments政府的 officialese, computerese還有 computerese, and the best-known of them而其中最有名的, gobbledygook's cousin gobbledygook 的表親 bureaucratese bureaucratese.
core核心畫面
組成journal + -ese. The ending -ese normally tells you where a language comes from (Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese). Attached to a job or an institution, it makes a joke of that: it treats the group's writing as if it were a foreign language of its own — and a tiresome one.
同家族的字
- journalthe noun it is built on: a newspaper or periodical
- legalesethe same mocking -ese ending, for the dense language of lawyers
- officialesesame pattern again, for the empty language of official documents
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
journalesenoun/ˌd͡ʒɜː.nəˈliːz/
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A style of writing used in some newspapers and magazines, characterized by cliché, hyperbolic language, use of some vocabulary items that are mostly confined to this genre, and clipped syntax.
- We write journalese out of habit, sometimes from misguided training, and to sound urgent, authoritative and, well, journalistic. But it doesn't do any of that.
- The veteran newspaper columnist, Keith Waterhouse, identifies two versions of this journalese. The first is officialese. It can be found everywhere […] The second version, which he calls tabloidese, is characterised by bolted-together monosyllables and sensationalism. Both types of journalese have this in common: people don't speak like that.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。