hokum

音标发音

A true love is what doesn't strive for busyness, for extravagance, for luxury, and moreover for hokum.
真正的爱情是什么不努力忙碌，奢侈，豪华，而且为噱头。
Such sinister high hokum might be ridiculous if McCarthy didn't keep it moving faster than the reader can pause to think about it.
如果麦卡锡的叙事速度还不及读者停下来思考的速度，那如此用心险恶的高谈阔论难免会让人觉得荒谬可笑。
No more hokum. I want the truth.
别再耍花招了！我要实话。

More than thirty years later, the play, refurbished with a coherent psychological subtext, seems clearly more than metaphysical hokum.
NEWYORKER: Dancing with Death
The larger point is that the claim that CEOs are routinely paying lower rates than their secretaries is Omaha hokum.
FORBES: Correcting President Obama's Myriad Tax Fallacies
In the course of his brief press conference, Mr Gore hid behind this lawyer's hokum no fewer than six times.
ECONOMIST: Al Gore falls to earth