thieves' cant
collocation窃贼黑话
He used thieves' cant to confuse the guards.
他用窃贼的黑话迷惑卫兵。
行话；黑话；暗语
cants — plural of cant
空话；陈词滥调；倾斜；斜面；坡度；弯道超高；哀诉；哭诉；角；（建筑物等的）角落；外角；Shelta语（爱尔兰游民使用的语言）
The specialized or secret language of a particular group; argot.
某个阶层或群体的行话,黑话。
An argot, the jargon of a particular class or subgroup.
倾斜,某物设置的角度。
Slope, the angle at which something is set.
因重复过多而变得无意义的套话
stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
宗教派别、帮派或其他群体使用的秘密语言。
A private or secret language used by a religious sect, gang, or other group.
建筑物的角落。
A corner (of a building).
道路或跑道转弯处的倾斜,外侧高于内侧以减少离心力
a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
某些爱尔兰游民使用的语言；Shelta语。
A language spoken by some Irish Travellers; Shelta.
外部或外角。
An outer or external angle.
特定群体(如窃贼)使用的特有语言
a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)
哀怨的说话方式,如乞丐所用的。
Whining speech, such as that used by beggars.
从水平或垂直线的倾斜；斜面或倾斜。
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a tilt.
在纹章上使用与持有者名字相关的双关语,称为双关纹章。
A blazon of a coat of arms that makes a pun upon the name (or, less often, some attribute or function) of the bearer, canting arms.
翻转某物的动作或抛掷。
A movement or throw that overturns something.
突然的推、踢或其他冲动,导致偏向或方向改变；也指因此产生的偏向或转向。
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so given.
形成桶头侧面的段。
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.
木制齿轮边缘的段。
A segment of the rim of a wooden cogwheel.
放置在船甲板上支撑舱壁的木块。
A piece of wood laid upon the deck of a vessel to support the bulkheads.
初步切割后的未完成原木。
An unfinished log after preliminary cutting.
The thieves used their own cant to communicate without being understood by the police.
那些小偷用他们自己的黑话交流，不让警察听懂。
用法提示：这里的cant是名词，意为‘黑话’，指特定群体的秘密用语。
Linguists study the cant of various professional groups to understand their social dynamics.
语言学家研究各种职业群体的行话，以了解他们的社会动态。
用法提示：cant在此处指‘行话’，是特定行业的专用词汇。
Teenagers often develop their own cants that exclude adults.
青少年经常发展出他们自己的行话，将成年人排除在外。
用法提示：cants是cant的复数形式，表示多种行话或黑话。
比 cant 常见，不含秘密或贬义，多指某一行业或学科的专门用语。
与 cant 的“黑话”义最接近，强调特定群体（如罪犯）使用的秘密或非公开用语。
口语化色彩强，常带“难懂、陌生”的语感，不如 cant 正式。
指口语中非正式、新颖的词语，不一定限于某个秘密团体。
针对cant的名词义项‘倾斜/斜面’（指偏离水平或垂直面的角度或斜面），其反义为‘水平状态’；注意cant强调倾斜，levelness强调无倾斜的水平。
同取cant‘倾斜/斜面’义项的反义，指表面无坡度、不倾斜的状态。
窃贼黑话
He used thieves' cant to confuse the guards.
他用窃贼的黑话迷惑卫兵。
虚伪的宗教套话
The minister's words sounded like religious cant.
牧师的话听起来像虚伪的宗教套话。
政治空话
The candidate's speech was full of political cant.
这位候选人的演讲满是政治空话。
虚伪的道德说教
She saw through their moral cant.
她看穿了他们虚伪的道德说教。
窃贼是历史上使用 cant（黑话）的典型群体。
乞丐的哀怨腔调或隐语与 cant 的用法相关。
宗教派别被词典定义为使用秘密语言 cant 的群体之一。
帮派成员常用 cant 作为内部暗语。
爱尔兰游民使用的 Shelta 语也被称为 cant。
清空你脑中的空话。
Samuel Johnson's famous line 'Clear your mind of cant' — recorded by Boswell in 1778 — urges us to reject empty, insincere talk.
塞缪尔·约翰逊的名句‘清空你脑中的空话’——由博斯韦尔于1778年记录——劝我们拒绝空洞虚伪的言谈。
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