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

机灵鬼是他最好朋友，他歌真很棒。

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 Conway is talking out-of-date capitalist claptrap.

我们都清楚康威先生在宣扬资本家陈腔滥调。

“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不由衷空谈。

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

很快他们被警官传讯，讨好语是无用。

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

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

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胡乱语和虚假道德说教，是个骗子兼恶霸——他出身和背景赋予了他社会地位和表面优雅，是盖茨比张扬财富所无法企及。