chatter
vi. 嘮叨,喋喋不休; (鳥等)鳴,啁啾; (牙齒,機器等)振動,打顫; 運動時搖擺或嘎嘎作響
vt. 不加思索地說出
n. 閒聊; 咔噠聲; (動物的)啁啾聲; 潺潺流水聲
If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important.
Everyone's chattering away in different languages...
大家操著不同的語言喋喋不休地說著。
Erica was friendly and chattered about Andrew's children...
埃麗卡很和氣,不停地念叨著安德魯的孩子們。
If your teeth chatter, they keep knocking together because you are very cold or very nervous.
She was so cold her teeth chattered.
她凍得牙齒咯咯響。
If objects chatter, they make short repeated sounds.
The telex chattered all day and night with news bulletins.
電傳機沒日沒夜“嗒嗒嗒”地接收新聞稿。
When birds or animals chatter, they make high-pitched noises.
Birds were chattering somewhere.
鳥兒在某處唧唧喳喳地叫著。
1. noisy talk
2. the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
3. the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
1. click repeatedly or uncontrollably;
2. cut unevenly with a chattering tool
3. talk socially without exchanging too much information;
4. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
5. make noise as if chattering away;
the chattering classes
(貶)喋喋階級(受過教育的人士,尤指學術界、藝術界或媒體人士,習慣於發表有關社會和文化的自由主義見解)
I sent him away because I was tired lf his idle chatter.
我把他遷走了,因為他那無聊的閒扯使我厭煩.
She could not concentrate with the noisy chatter of the women at the next table.
隔壁桌的女人們嘈雜的聊天聲讓她無法集中思想.
Hair salon chatter is a unique linguistic phenomenon in itself.
美髮沙龍中的聊天本身就是一種獨特的語言現象.
Her continuous chatter vexes me.
她的喋喋不休使我煩透了.
In the countryside the only sound she could hear was the chatter of birds.
在鄉下她能聽到唯一的聲音就是鳥兒的啁啾聲.