English Dictionary

claptrap

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈklæpˌtɹæp/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 歴史的

Empty verbiage or nonsense. / (historical) A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters. / A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.

日本語の意味

無意味な言葉やでたらめな表現 / （歴史的な意味）劇場で拍手音を出すための装置 / 拍手を引き出すための策略や、誇張表現（詐欺的な言動）

His speech was mostly claptrap, full of empty promises and no concrete plan.

彼の演説は大部分が無意味な言葉で、空虚な約束ばかりで具体的な計画はなかった。

意味（1）

Empty verbiage or nonsense.

Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.

意味（2）

(historical) A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.

意味（3）

A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.

There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. It would be stagey, she had said, and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that.

claptraps （ plural ）