a word or phrase that is easy to remember, used for example by a political party or in advertising to attract people’s attention or to suggest an idea quickly 標語;口號 an advertising slogan 廣告口號 a campaign slogan 競選口號 The crowd began chanting anti-government slogans. 人群開始反複高呼反政府口號。
Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsb2, Businessb2T-shirts bearing anti-war slogans 印有反戰口號的 T 恤衫 The ‘freedom to learn’ has become just another one of the government's empty slogans. “學習自由”已成爲政府另一個空洞的口號。 The Left was still spouting old Marxist slogans. 左翼仍在呼喊着陳舊的馬克思主義口號。 The principle is summed up by the slogan ‘Trade, not aid’. 這個原則概括爲一句口號,即“要貿易,不要援助”。 They fought the election on the slogan ‘The time has come’. 他們以“恰逢其時”爲口號競選。 They protested under the slogan ‘When women stop, everything stops!’ 他們以“沒有女性,萬事皆休”爲口號進行抗議。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- catchy
- snappy
- popular
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- coin
- come up with
- invent
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- go
- say
- on the slogan
- under a/the slogan
- slogan for
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Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Scottish Gaelic sluagh-ghairm, from sluagh ‘army’ + gairm ‘shout’.