| 释义 |
oˌfficiaˈlese
[f. as prec. + -ese.]
The language characteristic of officials or official documents.
1884Yates Recoll. iii. I. 126 What was called, in delightful officialese, ‘the double Secretariat’ was abolished. 1924P. MacDonald Rasp vi. 84 My—what's the officialese for it?—‘suppression of the truth’ gave Boyd clue number one. 1932New Statesman 2 Jan. 7/1 Drink to me only with thine i's, and I will cross the t's, But leave no kiss within this cup of crabb'd officialese. 1941Manch. Guardian Weekly 14 Mar. 214/3 Let us be fair to the Civil Servant: the official is not the only dealer in officialese. 1953E. Simon Past Masters iv. ii. 220 One was left to infer between the lines of officialese. 1960S. Foot Emergency Exit xiii. 110 Constitutional English is such a splendid language..but this was constitutional officialese. 1973Listener 15 Feb. 221/3 The vocabulary Don Haworth's characters use..embodies chunks of jolting officialese. 1975B. Garfield Hopscotch iii. 50 ‘You've read the backgrounding.’ It was phrased in dry officialese. |