death by PowerPoint

短语

词形变化

deaths by PowerPoint 复数 deaths by PowerPoint

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The boredom or disengagement that an audience experiences from poorly designed or overly verbose presentations using any type of presentation software.

    习语 非正式 不可数 媒体 教育

    Near-synonym: PowerPointlessness

    2000, David Greenberg, Avoiding Death by PowerPoint, 45 Proven Strategies to Breathe Life Into Dull Presentations, Goldleaf Publications, →ISBN, illustrated.

    In corporations, death by overhead has been replaced by death by PowerPoint. Nothing has changed but the technology.

    And, as audience members, we have all experienced death by PowerPoint, the comatose state that results from being subjected to one stultifying slide after another.

    Where a 10-page presentation with one or two charts would have been acceptable before, now we all suffer from death by PowerPoint.