pablum

n. 枯燥乏味的文章、思想,精神食量

发音

UK /ˈpæbləm/
其它
US /ˈpæbl(ə)m/

词形变化

pablums 复数 pablums

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Alternative letter-case form of Pablum (“a type of cereal for infants made from cornmeal, oat, and wheat”).

    美国 不可数
  2. 2.

    Mushy, easily digested food; pap; (countable) a specific type of such food.

    美国 不可数 引申义
  3. 3.

    Something overly bland or simplistic, especially speech or writing.

    单调乏味

    美国 可数 贬义 比喻 不可数

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

pap

上位词 3

garbage cereal drivel

整体词 1

pap

词源

A variant of Pablum, the name of a food supplement for malnourished infants developed in 1931 by the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and Mead Johnson & Company, probably a shortening of Latin pābulum (“fodder for animals; food, nourishment”), from pā(scō) (“to feed, nourish; to drive to pasture; to support; to tend”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect, ward; to shepherd”)) + -bulum (suffix denoting an instrument) (from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix denoting an instrument or tool))), or directly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂-dʰlom (from *peh₂- + *-dʰlom). The name was trademarked in the United States in 1932.

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