hogwash, retract, buncombe, bunkum, claptrap,posthaste, retraction

Voltaire’s story is emblematic: upon seeing a little Shakespeare in London, he dashed off a long and passionate essay just ripping into this total shit French classical drama was and praising how much better Shakespeare was; as he spoke no English and didn’t really understand the plays he attended, the essay is hogwash. Kafu’s contrasts between the West and Japan, as expressed in these essays, are hogwash, too.


An online mob demanded brands such as H&M, Nike and Uniqlo to retract past statements about forced labour in Xinjiang if they expect to make money in China


ECONOMIST.COM
China boycotts Western clothes brands over Xinjiang cotton


Academic journals in Russia are retracting more than 800 papers following a probe into unethical publication practices by a commission appointed by the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Academy commission's probe of domestic journals causes "conflict and tension"
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Russian journals retract more than 800 papers after ‘bombshell’ investigation

But remember that "simplicity" is a buncombe. (V. Nabokov, On Ivan Ilych's Life by Tolstoy)

hogwash	(noun) Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense.
Synonyms:	bunkum, guff, rot
Usage:	The entire article is hogwash, and I demand that you print a retraction posthaste!

 To imply that freezing or getting rid of the escalator, as they do, would eradicate all the problems of the road haulage industry is hogwash.

retract

Pronunciation: /rɪˈtrakt/

Translate retract | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish

verb

• 1 draw or be drawn back or back in: [with object]:she retracted her hand as if she’d been burnt [no object]:the tentacle retracted quickly

• 2 [with object] withdraw (a statement or accusation) as untrue or unjustified:he retracted his allegations
• withdraw or go back on (an undertaking):the parish council was forced to retract a previous resolution

Derivatives

retractable

adjective

retraction

noun

retractive

adjective

Origin:

late Middle English: from Latin retract- 'drawn back', from the verb retrahere (from re- 'back' + trahere 'drag'); the senses 'withdraw (a statement') and 'go back on' via Old French from retractare 'reconsider' (based on trahere 'drag')

post-haste

adverb

• with great speed or immediacy:she would go post-haste to England

Origin:

mid 16th century: from the direction ‘haste, post, haste’, formerly given on letters

withdraw

• [wiðdrɔ'ː, wiθ-]

[動]（-drew 〔-drú-〕, -drawn 〔-drn〕）(他)［III[名]（[副]）］

1 …を（…から）引っ込める((from ...))

withdraw oneself from ...
…から身を引く

withdraw one's eyes from a scene
光景から目をそらせる.

2 〈人を〉（学校などから）退かせる；〈軍隊などを〉（…から）引き揚げる, 撤退させる；〈預金などを〉（銀行などから）引き出す((from ...))

withdraw savings from an account
口座から預金をおろす（▼^×the withdrawn money「引き出した金」とはいわない）

withdraw a son from school
息子を退学させる

withdraw troops from a position
陣地から軍隊を撤退させる.

3 〈約束・命令・申し出などを〉取り消す, 撤回する；〈訴訟を〉取り下げる；〈特権・恩恵などを〉取り上げる, （…から）取り戻す((from ...))

withdraw an order
命令を撤回する

withdraw a scholarship from a person
人の奨学金支給を停止する［打ち切る］.

4 〈通貨などを〉（…から）回収する, 取り除く((from ...))

withdraw soiled banknotes from circulation
出回っている汚損紙幣を回収する

withdraw a name from a list
名簿から氏名を削除する.

━━(自)

1 ［I（[副]）］（…から；…へ）退く, 引き下がる, 引っ込む, 立ち去る((from；into, to ...))

withdraw into one's room
自室に引っ込む

withdraw into silence
黙ってしまう.

2 ［I（[副]）］（活動・競争などから）身を引く, 隠退する；〈軍隊などが〉（…から）退去［撤退, 撤兵］する；（学校を）やめる, 受講をやめる；（会などから）脱退する((from ...))

withdraw from politics
政界から引退する

withdraw from a war
戦争から手を引く

The program's sponsors withdrew.
番組のスポンサーは降りた.

3 前言［約束］を取り消す, 提案［動議など］を撤回する.

4 （催眠薬・麻薬などの）使用をやめる, 断つ((from ...))

withdraw from cocaine
コカインをやめる.


retraction
(rĭ-trăk'shən) 
n.

1. The act of retracting or the state of being retracted.
2. 1. The act of recanting or disavowing a previously held statement or belief.
   2. A formal statement of disavowal.
   3. Something recanted or disavowed.
3. The power of drawing back or of being drawn back.

retract

• [ritrǽkt]

((形式))[動](他)

1 〈意見・法令・約束を〉撤回する, 引っ込める

refuse to retract one's insults
無礼なことばの撤回を拒否する.

2 《チェス》〈こまを〉元に戻す, 待ったをかける.

━━(自)（約束・前言などを）取り消す.

claptrap	(noun) Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
Synonyms:	blah, bombast, fustian, rant
Usage:	He talks a lot of pretentious claptrap and rarely gets down to brass tacks.

cláptràp[cláp・tràp][名][U]（人気取りのための）誠意のない［場当たりの］言葉, はったり, 口からの出まかせ.
bunkum
also buncombe
n.
Empty or insincere talk; claptrap.

[After Buncombe, a county of western North Carolina, from a remark made around 1820 by its congressman, who felt obligated to give a dull speech "for Buncombe".]

buncombe[bun・combe]

• 発音記号[bʌ'ŋkəm]

[名]＝bunkum. (bŭng'kəm)