| 释义 |
cant1/kænt/ n. & v.●n. 1 insincere pious or moral talk 言不由衷的话;伪善的言词 2 ephemeral or fashionable catchwords 短时流行的口号;时髦的套语 3 language peculiar to a class, profession, sect, etc.; jargon (某个阶层或职业的)行业术语,行话;黑话 ●v. intr. use cant 使用术语(或行话);讲黑话 [earlier of musical sound, of intonation, and of beggars' whining; perhaps from the singing of religious mendicants: probably from Latin canere ‘sing’] |