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词汇 newspeak
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Definition of newspeak in English:

newspeak

nounˈnjuːspiːkˈn(j)uˌspik
mass noun
  • Ambiguous euphemistic language used chiefly in political propaganda.

    新话(指主要用于政治宣传的模棱两可的委婉语)

    ‘deterrence’ is just Newspeak for plain old threatening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • So looking at the theory, the Third Way seems to be nothing more than neo-liberalism cloaked in Orwellian newspeak.
    • That's the kind of newspeak that presents itself as journalism while detouring around truth.
    • And some American journalists have begun to make that newspeak their own, among them CNN's senior international correspondent Robertson.
    • We cannot, like 1984's famous newspeak, just blot out the ideas that we do not like.
    • The grand media outlets are so entangled in the current newspeak that they rarely seem capable of presenting any fundamental challenge to the White House.
    • With a bit of Orwellian newspeak, the scientists described the entities as ‘nuclear transfer constructs’ rather than early embryos, and avoided the language of ‘cloning’ altogether.
    • This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
    • In the same way nobody who reads a press-release accepts the face value, so can the Chinese learn how to use newspeak to get their message across.
    • It's spin, it's all newspeak, it's double thinking, it's analysts talking about Telstra.
    • As much as newspeak was a signature of the Kremlin, it is an equally apt description of today's White House.
    • At the same time, it has turned true English into newspeak.
    • When I first heard Pentagon newspeak refer to assassination as ‘decapitation,’ I naturally thought of Charles I and Louis XVI.
    • Unfortunately, these soundbites are often peppered with newspeak - words which are designed to lead you down a particular path with no way to voice dissent in any meaningful way.
    • It requires standardized procedures and coded phrases for its operation, and regards the acceptance of such procedures and newspeak as the precondition for its functioning, not the outcome of debate.
    • It's much easier to stick with comfortable newspeak about ‘a lengthy air campaign led by B - 2 bombers armed with 2,000-pound satellite-guided bombs.’
    • We have 1984 today; even if not in the form described by Orwell; since newspeak is replaced by the patois of the gang leaders and international body smugglers.
    • In other words, according to Lehman's newspeak dialectic, an honest history has to be prepared to be dishonest about what actually happened.
    • Sometimes ‘nonlinear thinking’ is just newspeak for mental incoherence.
    • If George Orwell was writing today, he wouldn't need to invent newspeak.
    • Sure, we need everything Brown wants, but I don't know how we can get there in a system so adept at hiding the real costs and spewing Orwellian newspeak whenever a voice of reason speaks out.
    Synonyms
    wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory

Origin

1949: the name of an artificial official language in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Definition of newspeak in US English:

newspeak

nounˈn(j)uˌspikˈn(y)o͞oˌspēk
  • Ambiguous euphemistic language used chiefly in political propaganda.

    新话(指主要用于政治宣传的模棱两可的委婉语)

    “deterrence” is just Newspeak for plain old threatening
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The grand media outlets are so entangled in the current newspeak that they rarely seem capable of presenting any fundamental challenge to the White House.
    • This is a fine example of Orwellian newspeak, suggesting that openness can best be achieved by secrecy and non-disclosure.
    • Sure, we need everything Brown wants, but I don't know how we can get there in a system so adept at hiding the real costs and spewing Orwellian newspeak whenever a voice of reason speaks out.
    • Unfortunately, these soundbites are often peppered with newspeak - words which are designed to lead you down a particular path with no way to voice dissent in any meaningful way.
    • We have 1984 today; even if not in the form described by Orwell; since newspeak is replaced by the patois of the gang leaders and international body smugglers.
    • That's the kind of newspeak that presents itself as journalism while detouring around truth.
    • With a bit of Orwellian newspeak, the scientists described the entities as ‘nuclear transfer constructs’ rather than early embryos, and avoided the language of ‘cloning’ altogether.
    • And some American journalists have begun to make that newspeak their own, among them CNN's senior international correspondent Robertson.
    • It requires standardized procedures and coded phrases for its operation, and regards the acceptance of such procedures and newspeak as the precondition for its functioning, not the outcome of debate.
    • We cannot, like 1984's famous newspeak, just blot out the ideas that we do not like.
    • At the same time, it has turned true English into newspeak.
    • In the same way nobody who reads a press-release accepts the face value, so can the Chinese learn how to use newspeak to get their message across.
    • It's much easier to stick with comfortable newspeak about ‘a lengthy air campaign led by B - 2 bombers armed with 2,000-pound satellite-guided bombs.’
    • In other words, according to Lehman's newspeak dialectic, an honest history has to be prepared to be dishonest about what actually happened.
    • If George Orwell was writing today, he wouldn't need to invent newspeak.
    • So looking at the theory, the Third Way seems to be nothing more than neo-liberalism cloaked in Orwellian newspeak.
    • As much as newspeak was a signature of the Kremlin, it is an equally apt description of today's White House.
    • It's spin, it's all newspeak, it's double thinking, it's analysts talking about Telstra.
    • When I first heard Pentagon newspeak refer to assassination as ‘decapitation,’ I naturally thought of Charles I and Louis XVI.
    • Sometimes ‘nonlinear thinking’ is just newspeak for mental incoherence.
    Synonyms
    wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, style, vocabulary, terminology, expressions, turns of phrase, parlance, manner of speaking, manner of writing, way of talking, form of expression, mode of expression, usages, locutions, idiolect, choice of words, rhetoric, oratory

Origin

1949: the name of an artificial official language in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

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