ADJ-GRADED 轻率的;随便说出口的 If you describe what someone says as glib, you disapprove of it because it implies that something is simple or easy, or that there are no problems involved, when this is not the case.
...the glib talk of 'past misery'... 对“昔日苦难”的轻描淡写
Mr. Lewis takes an insufferably glib attitude toward it all. 刘易斯先生对这一切不以为意,令人厌恶。
He glibly professed his ignorance of the affair. 他口口声声表白不知道这件事。
The author rather glibly moves from the descriptions of variability of these natural phenomena to the conclusion that his scientific investigations support the end of civilization at this date. 作者而高唱从变异的描述,这些自然现象的结论是,他的科学调查支持文明结束在这个日期。
Everything we've been so glibly spouting may well be true. 我们这样随随便便说出的一切倒很可能是真的呢。
Beaming with satisfaction, Hung-chien replied glibly that he would tell her more within three days. 鸿渐得意头上,口快说三天告诉她确实消息。
This managed to be both butch and banal; to quote glibly from a Tom Hanks movie when you have made the savings of your investors shrink was insultingly crass. 这句话既成功表现出了粗俗的男子气,又显得陈词滥调;你已使投资者的储蓄缩水了,还狡猾地引用汤姆•汉克斯(TomHanks)电影中的话,这样做既无礼又粗鲁。
She talked glibly of anatomy and construction, planes and lines. 她滔滔不绝地谈着人体解剖和结构,平面与线条。
To speak too glibly about unconditional acceptance appears to encourage careless and disobedient living. 过分轻易地说无条件接纳可能会鼓励轻率和不顺服的生活方式。
To speak or chatter glibly and rapidly. 喋喋不休流利且快速地讲述或饶舌。
They talked glibly about unity but never did anything to advance it. 他们大谈团结,却没有作任何事来促进团结。
Follow her he did, though bothered by unfamiliar words that fell glibly from her lips and by critical phrases and thought-processes that were foreign to his mind, but that nevertheless stimulated his mind and set it tingling. 他倒是跟上了她的话,虽然从她唇边漫不经心地滚出的陌生词汇和评论术语和他从不知道的思路都叫他感到吃力。可这也正好刺激了他的思维,使他兴奋。
In modern political and economic discussion we are apt to talk rather glibly of "labour". 我们在讨论近代政治和经济问题时,往往喜谈劳工一词。
As one of the founders of the liberalism, Locke taught glibly about "people are born free", and he believed that freedom is a natural right, an inherent human talent or ability, a result of human nature. 作为自由主义奠基人之一的洛克高唱人生而自由,并认为自由是一种自然权利,是人类固有的一种禀赋或能力,是人之本性使然。