a smokescreen of fustian and fantasy. 充斥了浮夸荒诞之词的障眼法。
A waistcoat of broadcloth or of fustian is alike to an aching heart, and we laugh no merrier on velvet cushions than we did on wooden chairs. 对伤心之人来说,无论是黑色绸料还是棉布做的马甲都别无二致。
He had small twinkling eyes, and a pock-marked face; wore a fur cap, a dark corduroy jacket, greasy fustian trousers, and an apron.
他有一双闪闪发光的小眼睛,一张有麻子的脸;戴着皮帽,深色灯芯绒夹克,油腻腻的棉质长裤,围着围裙。
南方与北方(中)
Nicholas wore his usual fustian clothes, but had a bit of black stuff sewn round his hat — a mark of mourning which he had never shown to his daughter Bessy's memory.
Fustian is a variety of heavy cloth woven from cotton, chiefly prepared for menswear. It is also used figuratively to refer to pompous, inflated or pretentious writing or speech, from at least the time of Shakespeare. This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian.