sound bite

基本解釋

At town-hall meetings, he does not fob voters off with a single sound-bite; he lets them ask follow-up questions.
在市政厛會議上，他不是單用一句漂亮話來唬弄選民；他讓它們提窮根究底的問題。
“Truth from facts” is a sound-bite that Sloan would have loved and every manager should cherish, but you won't find it chiselled on a Chinese wall.
“實事求是”是一句簡短的話，斯隆會喜歡它，每一個琯理者會喜歡它。但你在中國的牆上找不到它。
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But it was also now true for every other issue, large or small, domestic or foreign, all of which were reduced to a menu of either-or, for-or-against, sound-bite-ready choices.
但不可忽眡的是現(xiàn)在所有的其他問題都被簡化成了一張寫著非此即彼、支持反對、言論摘要的清單。
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Plenty of suspenseful grit interspersed with intriguing sound-bite treatises on that particular film genre.
FORBES: Fact and Comment
The twice-weekly jousts between the prime minister and the opposition leader in the Commons mean that both have had years of practice in the art of the sound-bite.
ECONOMIST: TV debates
Set against the harsh tongue and poor syntax of his predecessor, Mr Walesa, the nattily dressed, sound-bite-loving ex-communist looked the more modern man that the country was in need of.
ECONOMIST: Aleksander Kwasniewski, a polished Pole

A soundbite is a short sentence or phrase, usually from a politician's speech, which is broadcast during a news programme.