Claptrap is his best friend and his song was really good.

机灵鬼是他最好的朋友，他的歌真的很棒。

We all know that Mr. Conway is talking out-of-date capitalist claptrap.

我们都清楚康威先生在本家的陈腔滥调。

“It's all a lot of claptrap, ” said Uncle Vernon, glaring at Harry with piggy little eyes.

“那些全都是空话，”弗农姨父用他猪一样的小眼睛盯着哈利说。

For decades politicians had mouthed their support for a strong currency, but Nixon cut through the claptrap.

当时政客们已而谈支持美元长达数十年，但尼克松一语打消了这种言不由衷的空谈。

Soon they were cited by the police officer, and this claptrap was useless.

很快他们被警官传讯，这种讨好的语言是无用的。

That does not mean that he ruled out either one, but to prove religious faith by human reason was rationalistic claptrap, he thought.

这并不意味着他排除了任何一种，但他认为，用人类理性来证明宗教信仰是理性主义的哗众取宠。

Spouting white-supremacist claptrap and bogus moralising, Tom Buchanan is a cheat and a bully—on whom breeding and background confer a social status and meretricious ease that Gatsby's brash wealth cannot buy.

汤姆·布坎南满口白人至上主义的胡言乱语和虚假的道德说教，是个骗子兼恶霸——他的出身和背景赋予了他社会地位和表面的优雅，这是盖茨比张的财富所无法企及的。