Prate
[preɪt] or [pret]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.
(v. t.) To utter foolishly; to speak without reason or purpose; to chatter, or babble.
(n.) Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaning loquacity.
校對:洛丽塔
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Prattle, chat, chatter, tattle, babble, gabble, palaver, be loquacious.
v. a. Tell (foolishly), babble, utter, prate about.
n. Prattle, gabble, chatter, twaddle, palaver, idle talk, childish talk.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Babble, prattle, chat, chatter, tattle, gossip,[See BABBLE]
校對:洛丽
解釋/意思:
v.i. to talk idly: to tattle: to be loquacious.—v.t. to speak without meaning or purpose: to let out as a secret.—n. trifling talk.—n. Prā′ter one who prates or talks idly.—adj. Prā′ting talking idly or unmeaningly.—n. idle talk.—adv. Prā′tingly.
布伦特校對
例句/造句/用法:
- We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Thou hast been drinking more than enough, friar, said the woodsman, and, I fear, prating more than enough too. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- An old beau must have time for prating. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Out with the prating villain! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Away with this prating dotard, said Front-de Boeuf, lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Curb thy prating tongue. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Who prates of the tame achievements of Aladdin and the Magii of Arabia? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- And then they had prated about his manner of loving. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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