Prate

(noun.) idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.

校对:拉里

• We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Thou hast been drinking more than enough, friar, said the woodsman, and, I fear, prating more than enough too. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• An old beau must have time for prating. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Out with the prating villain! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Away with this prating dotard, said Front-de Boeuf, lock him up in the chapel, to tell his beads till the broil be over. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Curb thy prating tongue. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• If I had time, and was not in mortal dread of some prating prig of a servant passing, I would know what all this means. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Will he not be called by them a prater, a star-gazer, a good-for-nothing? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Who prates of the tame achievements of Aladdin and the Magii of Arabia? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• And then they had prated about his manner of loving. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

录入:莱尔