hokum

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A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
真正的愛情是什麽不努力忙碌，奢侈，豪華，而且爲噱頭。
Such sinister high hokum might be ridiculous if McCarthy didn't keep it moving faster than the reader can pause to think about it.
如果麥卡錫的敘事速度還不及讀者停下來思考的速度，那如此用心險惡的高談濶論難免會讓人覺得荒謬可笑。
No more hokum. I want the truth.
別再耍花招了！我要實話。

More than thirty years later, the play, refurbished with a coherent psychological subtext, seems clearly more than metaphysical hokum.
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The larger point is that the claim that CEOs are routinely paying lower rates than their secretaries is Omaha hokum.
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In the course of his brief press conference, Mr Gore hid behind this lawyer's hokum no fewer than six times.
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