gibberish
/ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈdʒɪbərɪʃ/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈji-brish ˈji-bə-rish ˈgi-/ (ame, mw)
gibberish — 名詞
1. speech or writing that sounds like real language but cannot be understood, eithe
胡言亂語
聽起來像語言、卻無法理解的言語或文字
speech or writing that sounds like real language but cannot be understood, either because the sounds are not real words or because the message is too confused to follow.
The fever was so high that Mert began muttering gibberish in his sleep.
Mert 發燒太嚴重，睡夢中開始喃喃說著胡言亂語。
mutter / talk gibberish (verb + gibberish collocation)
Apinya glanced at the legal contract and complained that the small print was complete gibberish.
Apinya 看了一眼那份法律契約，抱怨小字部分根本是胡言亂語。
complete / total gibberish (intensifier collocation)
When the microphone broke, the speaker's last sentence came out as electronic gibberish.
麥克風壞掉時，講者的最後一句話聽起來像電子噪訊般的亂碼。
Toddlers often babble cheerful gibberish for months before they say their first real word.
幼兒在說出第一個真正的詞之前，常常會開心地咿咿呀呀說上好幾個月的無意義音節。
The encrypted file opened in Notepad as pages of meaningless gibberish.
那個加密檔案在 Notepad 中打開，呈現出整頁整頁毫無意義的亂碼。
- nonsense
broader; can mean both meaningless language and silly ideas, while gibberish stresses unintelligible sound or text.
- drivel
stronger contempt; suggests the speaker is foolish, not just unclear.
- jargon
specialist vocabulary that outsiders find incomprehensible; technically meaningful, unlike gibberish.
- babble
continuous rapid speech that lacks clear meaning; often used of babies or excited talk.
- sense
language that carries clear meaning.
文法句型
talk gibberish
speak gibberish
sound like gibberish
用法筆記
Uncountable; never takes a plural or an article like 'a gibberish'. Often paired with intensifiers ('complete', 'total', 'pure') or with verbs of speaking ('talk', 'speak', 'mutter', 'babble'). Can describe both spoken nonsense and unreadable text such as garbled code or jargon-heavy writing.