Snow job
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📖 牛津释义
snow job
(infml 口 esp US), attempt at deception or persuasion by elaborate, often insincere, talk 花言巧语的欺骗或劝说
They're claiming that he's not guilty but that's just a snow job. 他们声称他无罪, 那只不过是遮人耳目而已.
🧩 词语组成解析
snow
[sno]
n. 雪，雪花;积雪;雪季;
vt. 使纷纷落下;使变白;下雪;被雪覆盖，被雪阻挡;
vi. 降雪;
job
[dʒɒb]
n. （一件）工作;职责;职业;（作为一个单元处理的）作业;
vt. 承包;代客买卖;
vi. 做零工;作包工;打杂;
🗣️ 情景例句
What's your major?
你主修什么专业？
Truth is (or lies) at the bottom of the decater.
酒后露真言。
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.
训练了一半的小象，由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后，竟拒绝吃食，消瘦至死。