Prattle
['præt(ə)l] or ['prætl]
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.
(v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.
(n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.
校對:鲁本
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Prate, chatter.
n. Prate, chatter.
埃维塔校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to talk much and idly: to utter child's talk.—v.t. to talk about in a prattling way.—n. empty talk.—ns. Pratt′lebox a prattler; Pratt′lement prattle; Pratt′ler one who prattles: a child.
乔恩錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I like their prattle; it does me good. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I am not fond of the prattle of children, he continued; for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected with their lisp. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- O no, not at all, she said, returning to the boy's prattle. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Tis very nonsense of an old man to prattle so when life and death's in mangling. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Miss Crawley allowed Briggs to prattle on without interrupting her too much. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Jessy, with her little piquant face, engaging prattle, and winning ways, is made to be a pet, and her father's pet she accordingly is. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- And so the pair went on prattling, as in quite early days. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Then, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The mated pairs were prattling away quite happily, and Dobbin knew he was as clean forgotten as if he had never existed in this world. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They talked and prattled at random, he always as if he were well, just the same as when he was going about. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The absent lord's children meanwhile prattled and grew on quite unconscious that the doom was over them too. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She heard that we were bound for Greece, that she would see her father, and now, for the first time, she prattled of him to her mother. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To seize upon me the very day after Mrs. Bute was gone, the old lady prattled on; it was too indecent. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
整理:塞尔瓦托