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单词 blather
释义
blather
verb[I]
informal
uk
/ˈblæð.ər/us
/ˈblæð.ɚ/
(UKalsoblether)
totalkfor alongtimein asillyorannoyingway:
喋喋不休地胡说；唠叨
What onearthare you blatheringonabout?你究竟在胡说些什么？
Stop blathering, woman!
Synonym
babble
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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blather
noun[U]
informal
uk
/ˈblæð.ər/us
/ˈblæð.ɚ/
(UKalsoblether)
sillyorannoyingtalkthatcontinuesfor alongtime:
Life gets morehecticanddemanding, and there aretimeswhen we needpointlessblather.
Yourendlessblather is sopredictable.
Synonym
babble
More examples
  • It's reallyirritatingto have toscrollthrough aloadof blather before you get to therealpoint.
  • This isperfectlycoherentblather, but blather none the less.
  • That was justroutinepoliticalblather.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Nonsense
  • a crock (of shit)idiom
  • babble
  • balderdash
  • balls
  • baloney
  • bilge
  • blah
  • blither
  • double-talk
  • doublespeak
  • drivel
  • eyewash
  • flapdoodle
  • malarkey
  • moonshine
  • mumbo jumbo
  • nonsense
  • nonsensical
  • prattle
  • rhubarb
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(Definition ofblatherfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
blather
verb[I]
informal
uk
/ˈblæð.ər/us
/ˈblæð.ɚ/
(UKalsoblether)
totalkfor alongtimein asillyorannoyingway
喋喋不休地胡说；唠叨
What onearthare you blatheringonabout?你究竟在胡说些什么？
Stop blethering, woman!你这个女人，别再唠唠叨叨了！

Examplesofblather

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His judgements, however, include such statements as 'the heights of inarticulacy', 'thisblather', language studies 'hijacked by the descriptive linguists', and 'dreary gruel' (the output of those linguists).
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She blathers on like a clockwork parrot and some of us are getting pretty sick of it.
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There is to be more talk apparently—some of us would say more havers and blathering—but no action.
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Theyblatherabout what they intend to do for small businesses.
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I am afraid that that sort of rhetoricalblatherdoes not meet the needs of the case.
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It is allblather; it is all rhetoric.
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So he went blathering on and on about the statistics.
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The wheel was in half and things blathered in debris.
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That is why he blathered something about the companies being re-formed.
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He has let down this country's dairy farmers, and he should not hide it withblatherabout a lot of little schemes.
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He complained to the hospital trust, but got the usual big organisationblathersaying that most people liked it.
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Those who continue toblatheron about how marvellous the system was are misleading the public.
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When peopleblatheron about leaving it to others and about becoming neutral, they should remember that neutrality must be defended.
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I will not be lectured aboutblatherby an expert on the subject.
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It was a lot ofblather.
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