sound bite

基本解释

At town-hall meetings, he does not fob voters off with a single sound-bite; he lets them ask follow-up questions.
在市政厅会议上，他不是单用一句漂亮话来唬弄选民；他让它们提穷根究底的问题。
“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.
“实事求是”是一句简短的话，斯隆会喜欢它，每一个管理者会喜欢它。但你在中国的墙上找不到它。
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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.
但不可忽视的是现在所有的其他问题都被简化成了一张写着非此即彼、支持反对、言论摘要的清单。
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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.