Chatter

['tʃætə] or ['tʃætɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys).

(noun.) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine.

(verb.) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

(verb.) make noise as if chattering away; 'The magpies were chattering in the trees'.

(verb.) cut unevenly with a chattering tool.

(verb.) click repeatedly or uncontrollably; 'Chattering teeth'.

塞西莉整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. i.) To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

(v. i.) To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate.

(v. i.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.

(v. t.) To utter rapidly, idly, or indistinctly.

(n.) Sounds like those of a magpie or monkey; idle talk; rapid, thoughtless talk; jabber; prattle.

(n.) Noise made by collision of the teeth, as in shivering.

編輯:迈尔斯

同義詞及近義詞：

v. n. Prate, prattle, chat, gossip, talk idly, talk freely.

n. Prate, prattle, CHAT.

手打:西尔维亚

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Rattle, jabber, cackle, prattle, twaddle

ANT:Reason, sense, argument, reticence, philosophy, conversation

艾米編輯

解釋/意思:

v.i. to talk idly or rapidly: to sound as the teeth when one shivers.—ns. Chatt′erbox one who chatters or talks incessantly; Chatt′erer one that chatters: an idle talker: a significant popular name applied to the birds of a small family of finch-like perching birds as the Bohemian wax-wing and the cedar bird of America; Chatt′ering noise like that made by a magpie or by the striking together of the teeth: idle talk.

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