- 1行話（常帶嫌棄：外人聽不懂的專業用語）
Jargon is the special words and phrases a job or a group uses, the kind that are hard for outsiders to follow. Doctors, lawyers, gamers, computer people, even school clubs have it. You usually treat it as a mass: too much jargon, full of jargon, not one jargon in everyday talk. People often say it with a sigh or a : you are shutting others out, or showing off. That is part of how the word feels. Though actually the tidy moral (“jargon is bad”) is tidier than real life. Specialists also need exact words so they do not mix up two close things; the same sentence can be precise inside the group and fog to everyone else. When a teacher asks you to “avoid jargon”, they mean: say it in ordinary English unless the exact term is doing real work. As a verb, to jargon (to talk that way) exists but is rare; the noun is the one you will meet. Older English also used jargon for chatter that sounded like talk but did not carry clear meaning — bird noise, then human noise you cannot follow — and that old picture still sits under the modern complaint.
組成From Middle English jargoun, jargon, from Old French jargon, a variant of gargon, gargun, “chatter; talk; language”. The old picture is noise that sounds like talk.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
jargonnoun詞源 1/ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
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A technical terminology unique to a particular subject.
- Sometimes it pays to overcomplicate your simple messages. Make a list of ten-dollar words, scientific terms, and obscure niblets of jargon and find ways to use them. Your reputation and authority will soar.
- That’s one of the biggest hurdles of managing a router and your network security in general, it’s a massive chore that is fraught with technical jargon, hurdles and screens saying ‘no’, ‘invalid’ or ‘not available’.
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A language characteristic of a particular group.
- They [the Normans] abandoned their native speech, and adopted the French tongue, in which Latin was the predominant element. They speedily raised their new language to a dignity and importance which it had never before possessed. They found it a barbarous jargon; they fixed it in writing; and they employed it in legislation, in poetry, and in romance.
- In fact all the competing theories have developed their own specialized jargons and have a tendency to be difficult to penetrate.
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Speech or language that is incomprehensible or unintelligible; gibberish.
- Cut the jargon and get to your point.
jargonverb詞源 1/ˈdʒɑː.ɡən/
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To utter jargon; to emit confused or unintelligible sounds.
- Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […].
- Prussian Trenck, the poor subterranean Baron, jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- jargoon
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。