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单词 prattle
释义
prattle
verb[I]
uk
/ˈpræt.əl/us
/ˈpræt̬.əl/
totalkin asillyway or like achildfor alongtimeabout things that are notimportantor without saying anythingimportant:
闲扯，胡扯
She'd have prattledon abouther newjobfor thewholeafternoonif I'dlether.如果我任她讲下去的话，她可以就她的新工作唠叨一下午。
Stopyourprattling and go tosleep!你们别闲扯了，睡觉去吧！
Synonyms
blabberinformal
chatter
prateold-fashioned
Compare
gabbleverbmainlyUK
gibbermainlydisapproving
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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prattler
prattle
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpræt.əl/us
/ˈpræt̬.əl/
a lot ofsillytalkabout things that are notimportant:
Hisspeechcontainednothing new and wasfullofpoliticalprattle andclichés.
I shouldn'twasteyourprecioustimewith myendlessprattle.
Synonym
chatter
Compare
gabblenoun
More examples
  • Don'tinterruptme withyourchildishprattle.
  • Some of what they're saying is justmindlessprattle.
  • Thespectatorsweresubjectedto astreamofnon-stopprattle over the public-addresssystem.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Nonsense
  • a crock (of shit)idiom
  • babble
  • balderdash
  • balls
  • baloney
  • bilge
  • blah
  • blather
  • blither
  • double-talk
  • doublespeak
  • drivel
  • eyewash
  • flapdoodle
  • malarkey
  • moonshine
  • mumbo jumbo
  • nonsense
  • nonsensical
  • rhubarb
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(Definition ofprattlefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
prattle
verb[I]
uk
/ˈpræt.əl/us
/ˈpræt̬.əl/
totalkin asillyway or like achildfor alongtimeabout things that are notimportantor without saying anythingimportant
闲扯，胡扯
She'd have prattledon abouther newjobfor thewholeafternoonif I'dlether.如果我任她讲下去的话，她可以就她的新工作唠叨一下午。
Stopyourprattling and go tosleep!你们别闲扯了，睡觉去吧！

Examplesofprattle

prattle
Anyone canprattlenonsense, and they'll always be able to find people to believe it, especially if they can dress it up in superstitious flummery.
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How she mustprattleby this time!
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The emphasis on the diminutive and the innocent happiness of the child highlight the failure of innocence; "pretty little prattling innocence" succumbs to cruel villainy.
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Whatever else you do, please avoid musicianlyprattleabout your favourite brand of guitar strings.
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The vibraphone resumes its jollyprattleuntil, seemingly having run out of things to say, the music just stops dead.
From theCambridge English Corpus
We no longer hear any prattling about competitive private enterprise.
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He needs to be in a country for only three days to be prattling.
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Have we got them rationalised, or are we just prattling along in the same old middle-class conventional attitudes to crime?
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I would rather be grappling than prattling.
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If information is received from an innocently prattling 4 year-old which leads to the parents being evicted, the parents inevitably will feel resentment and the child will inevitably feel guilt.
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Although theyprattleabout the need for exports, they are by this measure damaging firms that are doing their best to achieve them.
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No doubt those items will be added to with trivia,prattleand crumbs of hope.
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People whoprattleon about the north-south divide amuse me.
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One gets the feeling that this is not the time for theprattleof third-rate politics.
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They will still be able to visit houses andprattleon with their sales jargon, but leaving out the disabled.
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