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Gimmickry is gimmicks treated as a mass, or as a way of working: not one trick, but the whole habit of using tricks to get attention. If a product launch is all lights, slogans, and surprise gifts, and nobody can say what the product actually does, you might call that gimmickry. Like gimmick, it shows . It is uncountable — you do not say “a gimmickry.” A little more formal than gimmick, the sort of word a critic or a teacher might use.
噱頭、耍花招(指整套做法,不是單一個花招)
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gimmickrynoun/ˈɡɪmɪkɹi/
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Gimmicks collectively.
- Then, at least, we shall be able to program consciousness in such wise that it cannot be numbed nor distracted by the Narcissus illusions of the entertainment world that beset mankind when he encounters himself extended in his own gimmickry.
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The use of gimmicks.
- The fundamental reason educators have become involved in this gimmickry is that they do not seem to understand that unless there is a master plan to cover housing, jobs, and health, every plan for the schools will fall on its face. No piecemeal strategy can work.
- With colossal chambers filled with elaborately macabre pseudo-scientific devices and ironic pageantry celebrating horror with forced glee, the director takes extravagance for substance and gimmickry for style; the results are show-offy, tasteless, and empty.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。