| 释义 |
newspeak /ˈnjuːspiːk /noun [mass noun]Ambiguous euphemistic language used chiefly in political propaganda: ‘deterrence’ is just Newspeak for plain old threatening...- When I first heard Pentagon newspeak refer to assassination as ‘decapitation,’ I naturally thought of Charles I and Louis XVI.
- It's spin, it's all newspeak, it's double thinking, it's analysts talking about Telstra.
- And some American journalists have begun to make that newspeak their own, among them CNN's senior international correspondent Robertson.
Origin 1949: the name of an artificial official language in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. |