| 释义 |
sloganize, v.|ˈsləʊgənaɪz|
[f. slogan + -ize.]
1. trans.
a. To make (something) the subject of a slogan; to express in a slogan.
1929Bull. Amer. Library Assoc. Apr. 70 Infected with the economy virus sloganized by recent high national executives. 1941Auden New Year Let. ii. 39 Round a provincial régime that sloganized the Rights of Man. 1949Archit. Rev. CV. 96/2 To sloganize the present trend in Sweden: ‘Personal, organic creation in a harmonious democracy’—which should be vague enough to please everybody. 1981R. United Services Inst. Jrnl. June 7/1 If you try to sloganise it I think it is quite dangerous.
b. To influence by means of slogans.
1954ADA World Feb. 1m/1 Of all the economic prescriptions that have been written in Washington in the past 25 years, none is stranger or more dangerous than the current attempt to sloganize the country out of an economic decline.
2. intr. To compose slogans, to utter slogans.
1960Encounter June 38/1 Mao's ability to sloganise and reduce complex matters to simple formulas has been one of his key assets. 1975Daily Tel. 24 June 11/2 The conspirators met in a pub and sloganised about tyrants.
Hence ˈsloganized ppl. a., expressed in the form of a slogan or slogans; ˈsloganizer, one who uses slogans; ˈsloganizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1940New Statesman 2 Mar. 274/1 Snappy presentation and slick sloganising. 1965Ibid. 29 Oct. 660/3 This could become mere sententiousness, the jingling or sloganising final flourish in a poem like ‘Waiting’. 1970Times 31 Mar. (Austral. Suppl.) p. ii/7 Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s Mr. (later Sir) Robert Menzies encapsulated this weltanschauung in the sloganized search for ‘great and powerful friends’. 1974Daily Tel. 27 June 18 The cliché-ridden sloganisers of the extreme Left. 1975R. Lewis M. Thatcher v. 42 The manifesto gave an easy sloganised summary of the ‘action’ to which the Party was committing itself. 1981Times Lit. Suppl. 15 May 548/1 The success of ‘All You Need is Love’..encouraged the Beatles to try their hand at sloganizing. |