glib
glib 英 [glɪb] 美 [ɡlɪb]
adj. 油腔滑调的；不诚恳的
a glib salesman 油嘴滑舌的推销员
glib answers 未经思考的回答
- 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. 油腔滑调的；不诚恳的
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1. a glib salesman
油嘴滑舌的推销员
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2. glib answers
未经思考的回答
- 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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