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单词 prate
释义
prate
verb[I]
old-fashioned
uk
/preɪt/us
/preɪt/
(alsoprate on)
totalkstupidly, or about things that are notimportant, for alongtime:
侃侃而谈，对…滔滔不绝
Inevitably there's somecallerprating on about thedeclineinmoralstandards.不可避免会有人打进电话来侃侃而谈道德沦丧问题。
Synonyms
chatter
prattle
Compare
gabbleverbmainlyUK
gibbermainlydisapproving
blabberinformal
blabinformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Ways of talking
  • babble
  • beg the questionidiom
  • blah
  • blether
  • blither
  • coo
  • declaim
  • declamatory
  • drone on
  • gabble
  • loose
  • mumble
  • pipe
  • ramble
  • rattle on/away
  • talk trashidiom
  • throwyourvoiceidiom
  • trill
  • word salad
  • yak
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(Definition ofpratefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofprate

prate
Who prates of stream and sea?
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I say what is the use of our prating about our good intentions and waiting for somebody else to do the good actions?
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Should she not have supported that proposal if she wanted to defend the freedom that she prates so much about?
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Yet the curious thing is that wepratemore than almost anyone else about the virtues of consultation.
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We know that well, so they might as well stop prating about it from now on.
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There is no point prating about human rights unless we are serious about the rule of law, because that is what protects those rights.
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To go on prating about something which we might have wished but which is no longer possible, is to adopt an altogether wrong attitude.
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That is not the basis of democracy about which she prates so much.
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Let us deal with the perishing procrastination of those who particularlyprateabout principle—by which they mean precept without any possible foreseeable performance.
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I would say "praying mantis", but when she prates the rest of us have to pray.
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We oftenprateabout the demarcation lines in the filthy trades, but ignore them in the noble professions.
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I do not want toprateon this particular line.
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I do not want the prating reply that nationalised industries conduct their own day-to-day affairs.
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It is easy toprateabout principles and to forget about people.
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Having advocated it for their special anti-gambling purposes they will not hesitate to go about the country andprateliberty on the largest scale.
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