空話本身，和回敬空話的那一聲
這一組直接就是那個空盒子：一邊是盒子本身，一邊是你把它推開時說的那一個字。
noun · C2
Talk or behaviour that is not honest and not sincere: words said to sound fine, important, or caring when there is nothing real behind them.
胡扯；虛偽的空話
這個拼法底下其實是2個不同的字，意思沒有關係， 只是長得一樣。下面分開列出來。跳到 胡扯；虛偽的空話 · （英式）薄荷硬糖
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humbug
noun, verb, interj核心畫面
One way to hold this centre: a fine-sounding speech that turns out to be an empty box. The words are warm, important, full of good feeling — and there is nothing inside them. From that box you can reach everything here: the talk itself, the one-word answer you throw at it, the act of using such talk on somebody, and the person who lives by it.
可以想成一個包裝得很漂亮的盒子，打開卻是空的。話說得溫暖、體面、義正辭嚴，但裡面沒有東西。humbug 這一組意思都…更多收起
可以想成一個包裝得很漂亮的盒子，打開卻是空的。話說得溫暖、體面、義正辭嚴，但裡面沒有東西。humbug 這一組意思都可以從這個盒子看出去：那些空話本身、你回敬它的那一聲「胡說！」、用這種話去唬別人的動作，還有整天靠這種話過日子的那個人。Two branches
拿空話去唬人的人和動作
同樣一個空盒子，這裡有人把它遞出去。一邊是遞的動作，一邊是專門遞盒子的那個人。
noun · C2
A person who is not honest or not sincere, especially one who acts a part or claims to be something they are not.
騙子；偽君子
A second word, same spelling
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humbug
noun核心畫面
A second, separate centre, and it is something you can put in your mouth: a hard little sweet the size of a thumb, striped dark brown and cream, tasting of peppermint, sold by weight in a paper bag. It is not soft, so you suck it and it lasts. Whether this picture has anything at all to do with empty talk is not known, so it is kept apart here rather than forced into the same story.