handwave

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The wave of a hand. literally
    — The leader, an upright, broad-shouldered old man, with snow-white hair, half halts his horse with a handwave of salutation, as he reaches the Imperial Crown Prince, then gallops on with the latter hanging close on his flank.
  2. A glib statement or explanation that glosses over important details.
    — In this glib handwave by Friedman, the real results are determined independently of money and financing phenomena; given the way monetarists set up the analysis, the rate of growth of money can only affect the behavior of the price level.
动词 v.
  1. To explain something superficially, skipping over important details, perhaps appealing to intuition instead. rhetoric
    — Some readers may wish to handwave this restriction away, thinking of #92;tfrac#123;#92;partial#125;#123;#92;partial#92;rho#125; as a differentiable vector field on #92;mathbb#123;R#125;² that behaves badly at the origin; this approach will suffice for the purposes of this book.

词形变化

handwaves plural hand-wave alternative handwaves present,singular,third-person handwaving participle,present handwaved participle,past handwaved past hand-wave alternative

词源

词源 1
From hand + wave.
词源 2
From hand + wave.
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