glib
glib 英 [glɪb] 美 [ɡlɪb]
adj. 口齿伶俐的，油嘴滑舌的
The fellow has a very glib tongue. 这家伙嘴油得很。
His glib talk sounds as sweet as a song. 他说的比唱的还好听。
- A hiring manager might think you're being glib, or slick and insincere, if you say you've led a successful multinational corporation when you were actually in charge of flipping burgers for a fast-food restaurant chain.
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- adj. 口齿伶俐的，油嘴滑舌的
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1. The fellow has a very glib tongue.
这家伙嘴油得很。
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2. His glib talk sounds as sweet as a song.
他说的比唱的还好听。
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3. To begin with, that any glib answer to the question misses the core of the experience – the complex dialectic of being ill, which is a social as well as physical condition.
首先，任何一个肤浅的答案都会遗漏掉这段经历的核心，即对患病这件事复杂的辩证逻辑，这既是社会状况也是身体状况。
- glib (adj.) 1590s, "smooth and slippery," a dialect word, possibly a shortening of obsolete glibbery "slippery," which is perhaps from Low German glibberig "smooth, slippery," from Middle Low German glibberich, from or related to glibber "jelly," all part of the Germanic group of gl- words for "smooth, shining, joyful," from PIE root *ghel- (2) "to shine." Of words, speakers, etc., from c. 1600. Related: Glibly; glibness.
glib / ɡlɪb ; NAmE ɡlɪb / adjective ( disapproving) (of speakers and speech 演讲者或演讲 ) using words that are clever, but are not sincere, and do not show much thought 油腔滑调的；不诚恳的；未经思考的；肤浅的 ◆ a glib salesman 油嘴滑舌的推销员 ◆ glib answers 未经思考的回答 ▶ glib·ly / ɡlɪbli ; NAmE ɡlɪbli / adverb glib glibber glibbest glib / ɡlɪb ; NAmE ɡlɪb / glib·ly / ɡlɪbli ; NAmE ɡlɪbli /
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