英语词汇claptrap的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	claptrap
词源	claptrap. Claptrap, first recorded in 1727, initially meant a playwright’s trick or device to catch applause, “a trap to catch a clap by way of applause from the spectators at a play,” as the first person to define the term put it. The word finally came to mean pretentious, insincere, or empty language.
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