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Language that sounds scientific and deep when people talk about feelings, but is not really doing careful work — and the word is not kind. You use it when someone piles up psychology-sounding phrases until the talk becomes a fog. It is not a medical term and not a compliment. It was put together around 1975 from psycho- plus babble, which is ordinary English for a stream of talk that does not land. Though actually, some of the words people mock as psychobabble are useful when a real therapist uses them carefully; the sting is in the empty, use. Speakers who say psychobabble are showing they do not trust the talk.
心理學黑話（帶貶義）
組成From psycho- + babble. First used around 1975 by R.D. Rosen. Babble is ordinary English for talking fast and not very clearly.
同家族的字
- babblethe second half: a confused stream of talk
- psychologyshares the psycho- piece, here used with a mocking edge
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。
psychobabblenoun/ˈsaɪkəʊbab(ə)l/
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derogatoryThe jargon of psychology and psychoanalysis, especially when used pretentiously to discuss mundane issues.
- We are living, practically no one has to be reminded, in a therapeutic age. The sign in every storefront reads: "Psychobabble spoken here".
- The psychological patter of the '70s is as inescapable as Muzak and just as numbing: Are you relating? Going through heavy changes? In touch with yourself and doing your own thing? Are you up front, or just hung up and uptight? Boston Writer R.D. (for Richard Dean) Rosen calls it psychobabble, and in his new book by that title (Atheneum, $8.95) sees America awash in soggy therapeutic clichés.
psychobabbleverb/ˈsaɪkəʊbab(ə)l/
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To speak or converse using this kind of jargon.
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。