pattered

英 [ˈpætəd]

美 [ˈpætərd]

v.  发出轻快的拍打声; 轻盈地走
patter的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

• VERB 嗒嗒作响；嗒嗒地拍
  If somethingpatterson a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds.
  1. Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.
     外面，松树上的雨水滴落在屋顶上，嗒嗒作响。
• N-SING 急促的轻拍声；嗒嗒声
  Apatteris a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds.
  1. ...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.
     暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声
• N-SING （通常以娱乐、推销或劝说为目的的）顺口溜，伶俐话，连珠炮似的叫卖语
  Someone'spatteris a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something.
  1. There's no doubt women found him charming. It must have been his patter because he's certainly not at all good-looking...
     女人们无疑会觉得他很迷人。这肯定是因为他的顺口溜，因为他长得一点儿都不好看。
  2. Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained.
     弗兰开始不由自主地唠叨起乔恩是怎样无可避免地被扣留的。

双语例句

• She pattered along ( the corridor) in her bare feet.
  她赤著脚轻快地走过（走廊）。
• The rain pattered against the casements; the bells tolled for church with a melancholy sound.
  雨点敲打着客栈的窗子，教堂传来低沉的钟声，召唤人们去做礼拜。
• Like rain on a cold window, these thoughts pattered against the hard surface of the incontrovertible truth, which was that he must die.
  像雨点打在冰冷的窗户上，这些思绪纷乱地砸在那个硬邦邦的、不可否认的事实上，事实就是他必须死。
• And then, with the coming of the night the north wind was again loosed, while the rain still beat against the windows and pattered down from the low eaves.
  后来，夜幕降临，刮起了北风。雨点还敲打着窗户，雨水从低矮的屋檐上流下来。
• The rain pattered on and on.
  雨滴沥滴沥下个不停。
• The rain pattered down endlessly.
  雨滴答滴答地下个不停。
• But as Miss Brill wondered, the ermine toque turned, raised her hand as though she'd seen someone else, much nicer, just over there, and pattered away.
  然而就在布里尔小姐想着这些的时候，貂皮无沿帽转过身去，好像看见了就在那边有另一个更好的人似地扬起手，嗒嗒地走了。
• Bare feet pattered along the hard floor.
  光着的脚板在硬地板上啪嗒啪嗒地走。
• Cabs and carriages, their lamps gleaming like yellow eyes, pattered by.
  公共马车和私人马车嗒嗒地驶过，车灯像一双双黄色的眼睛闪闪发亮。
• The rain pattered against the windows.
  雨点儿打在窗户上啪嗒啪嗒直响。