poppycock 胡说美式英语，可能来自荷兰语pappe,流食，软食，词源同pap,kak,粪便，来自拉丁语cacare,排便，词源同cacophony.比喻用法。
- poppycock (n.)
- 1865, American English, probably from Dutch dialect pappekak, from Middle Dutch pappe "soft food" (see pap) + kak "dung," from Latin cacare "to excrete" (see caca).
- 1. Those five judges up there are not going to sustain any such poppycock idea as this.
- 那里的五位推事,是不会支持象这样胡说八道的主意的.
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- 2. Politically maybe the idea seems good, but militarily it's poppycock.
- 这种想法在政治上可能看来可取, 但在军事上那是废话一堆.
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- 3. He dismissed the official explanationas complete poppycock.
- 他认为官方的解释是一派胡言,不值一顾.
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- 4. Your correspondent thinks this is poppycock.
- 本刊记者认为这纯粹是胡扯.
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