prattling

英 [ˈprætlɪŋ]

美 [ˈprætlɪŋ]

v.  闲扯; 唠叨
prattle的现在分词

复数：prattlings　现在分词：prattling　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 闲扯；空谈；喋喋不休
  If you say that someoneprattles on aboutsomething, you are criticizing them because they are talking a great deal without saying anything important.
  1. Lou prattled on about various trivialities till I wanted to scream...
     卢就各种芝麻小事唠叨个没完，后来我烦得都想尖叫了。
  2. She prattled on as she drove out to the Highway...
     她开车上公路时一直说个没完。
  3. Archie, shut up. You're prattling.
     阿奇，闭嘴！净废话。
  4. Prattleis also a noun.
     
  5. What a bore it was to listen to the woman's prattle!
     听那个女人唠叨真烦人！

双语例句

• Sometimes, after my mother had listened to one of my stories, she'd ask in a care-laden voice, almost as if to herself: What will you be like when you grow up, son? Might you wind up prattling for a living one day?
  我母亲在听完我的故事后，有时会忧心忡忡地，像是对我说，又像是自言自语：儿啊，你长大后会成为一个什么人呢？
• Clubs are all too often full of people prattling on about things they no longer know about.
  俱乐部里总是挤满了絮絮叨叨的人，其实他们对自己所谈论的事情不再了解。
• She went on prattling away, but I had stopped, listening.
  她继续喋喋不休地说，但我已不再听了。
• The baby is prattling ( away) happily in her cot.
  那幼儿在小床上牙牙自语，快活得很。
• Archie, shut up. You're prattling.
  阿奇，闭嘴！净废话。
• Then, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words.
  于是，在前进的回音之中又有了孩子那小脚的脚步声和她的牙牙学语声。
• The meanders of a prattling brook, were shaded with straggling willows and alder trees.
  一条小河蜿蜒掩映在稀疏的柳树和桤树的树荫间，淙淙作响。
• My mother was very old and was fond of prattling away.
  我母亲年事已高，她爱颠三倒四地说个没完。