| 释义 |
▪ I. blah, n. colloq. (orig. U.S.).|blɑː|
Also bla, blaa.
[Imitative.]
Meaningless, insincere, or pretentious talk or writing; nonsense, bunkum. Also used as a derisive interjection. Freq. reduplicated.
1918Wine, Women & War (1926) 136 [He] pulled old blah about ‘service’, ‘doing one's bit’, etc. 1921Collier's 15 Jan. 10/3 Then a special announcer begin a long debate with himself which was mostly blah blah. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt xxx. 359 Why the dickens they want to put in their time listening to all that blaa. 1924M. Arlen Green Hat vi. 164 So you heard about it from that femme fatale, did you? Damn that man! Bla, bla, bla! 1927Observer 10 July 28/1 England isn't fooling anyone with so much ‘blah’ about the world's greatest tournament. 1943‘G. Orwell’ in New Road 151 Exactly similar blah is being written about the Red Army at this moment. 1958E. H. Clements Uncommon Cold 229 A good deal of blah about waste of public money.
Hence blah, blah-blah v. intr., to talk or write ‘blah’.
1924‘W. Fabian’ Sailors' Wives iv. 56, I was just blahing to hear myself blah. 1931St. John Ervine in Time & Tide 12 Sept. 1057 That schoolmasters should permit him to blah-blah about his ignorance is a crime against the mind. 1942‘G. Orwell’ Diary 18 Apr. in Coll. Ess. (1968) II. 419 The tactless utterances of Americans who for years have been blahing about ‘Indian freedom’ and British imperialism. 1945― in Tribune 14 Dec. 10/3 Instead of blah-blahing about the clean, healthy rivalry of the football field..it is more useful to inquire how and why this modern cult of sport arose.
▪ II. blah, a. slang.
[Cf. blah n.]
1. Mad. (? orig. U.S.)
1924Telegr. & Teleph. Jrnl. X. 68/2 The third class is hopeless... It consists of the people who, in New York slang, have gone ‘blah’. 1928A. E. W. Mason Prisoner in Opal xxiii. 276 More of your questions and I am blah.
2. Dull, unexciting; pretentious.
1937N. Marsh Vintage Murder xi. 122 That fascinating blah stuff of hers goes down with the nitwits. 1955H. Roth Sleeper ix. 68 You must..have come to realize how blank and blah he made himself. 1959J. Verney Friday's Tunnel iv. 49 One of those blah sneery voices like a butler in a film. |