audience, technobabble, hit it off, libertarian derp

On Zelensky’s second trip outside Ukraine since Russia’s invasion nearly a year ago he received a hero’s welcome: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met him at the airport and he had an audience with King Charles III. (The president wore his signature military green sweatshirt at Buckingham Palace.)

The man introduced himself as Svante Paabo from Sweden. They started talking and immediately hit it off. They learned they were just one year apart in age and that Danjo had studied at UC Berkeley, a university in the US where Paabo had once done research.

 First, crypto boosters are very good at technobabble — using arcane terminology to convince themselves and others that they’re offering a revolutionary new technology, even though blockchain is actually pretty elderly by infotech standards and has yet to find any compelling uses.

Second, there’s a strong element of libertarian derp — assertions that fiat currencies, government-issued money without any tangible backing, will collapse any day now. True, Britain, whose currency was still standing last time I looked, went off the gold standard 90 years ago. But who’s counting?

audienceの意味 - 小学館 プログレッシブ英和中辞典

audience
音節au • di • ence
発音ɔ́ːdiəns
基本単語レベル
[名]1C〔集合的に；単複両扱い〕（講演・演奏会など催しの）聴衆（解説的語義）
（映画・演劇などの）観客，観衆，見物人（◆「聞く」行為が中心）；（テレビの）視聴者，（ラジオの）聴取者，（本・新聞などの）読者，（芸術などの）享受者；（特定の個人・主義などの）信奉者，共鳴者，ファン
a large [a small] audience
大勢［少数］の聴衆The audience was [were] enthusiastic.
観衆は熱狂的だったan audience rating
視聴率That author has a wider audience.
この作家は読者層が広いan increasing audience for a policy
増えつつある政策支持者
2U（訴え・意見などの）聴取；C聴取の機会
The committee gave him an audience.
委員会は彼の意見を聴聞した
3U（国王・法王・高官などの）話を拝聴すること；C正式会見，謁見≪with，of≫
a letter of audience
謁見状At ten the King granted him an audience [received him in audience].
国王は１０時に彼を引見したHe had an audience with [of] the Pope.
彼は法皇に拝謁した語源［原義は「聞くこと」］














hit it off

phrase of hit

1. INFORMAL

   be naturally friendly or well suited.

babble

/ˈbabl/

verb

1. 1.

   talk rapidly and continuously in a foolish, excited, or incomprehensible way.

   "they babbled on about their holiday"

   相似詞：

   prattle

   rattle on

   gabble

   chatter

   jabber

   twitter

   go on

   run on

   prate

   ramble

   burble

   blather

   blether

   blither

   maunder

   drivel

   patter

   yap

   jibber-jabber

   slabber

   gab

   yak

   yackety-yak

   yabber

   yatter

   yammer

   blabber

   jaw

   gas

   shoot one's mouth off

   witter

   rabbit

   chunter

   natter

   waffle

   run off at the mouth

   mag

   twaddle

   clack

   twattle
2. 2.

   (of flowing water) make a continuous murmuring sound.

   "the shallow river babbled over smooth rocks"

   相似詞：

   burble

   murmur

   gurgle

   purl

   tinkle

   plash

noun

1. 1.

   the sound of people talking simultaneously.

   "the answers were difficult to hear amid the babble of conversation"
2. 2.

   the continuous murmuring sound of flowing water.

   "the babble of a brook"

derp

/dəːp/

INFORMAL

exclamation

1. used as a substitute for speech regarded as meaningless or stupid, or to comment on a foolish or stupid action.

   "Lower tax rates and far lower job creation. Derp"

noun

1. foolishness or stupidity.

   "the derp heard outside apparently was only the tip of the iceberg"