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.