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 标语;口号 an advertising slogan 广告口号 a campaign slogan 竞选口号 The crowd began chanting anti-government slogans. 人群开始反复高呼反政府口号。
Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsb2, Businessb2T-shirts bearing anti-war slogans 印有反战口号的 T 恤衫 The ‘freedom to learn’ has become just another one of the government's empty slogans. “学习自由”已成为政府另一个空洞的口号。 The Left was still spouting old Marxist slogans. 左翼仍在呼喊着陈旧的马克思主义口号。 The principle is summed up by the slogan ‘Trade, not aid’. 这个原则概括为一句口号,即“要贸易,不要援助”。 They fought the election on the slogan ‘The time has come’. 他们以“恰逢其时”为口号竞选。 They protested under the slogan ‘When women stop, everything stops!’ 他们以“没有女性,万事皆休”为口号进行抗议。
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’.