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Chatter Idle Chattering Class 10657.Chatter 英 Tʃætə]美 Tʃætɚ

正面 10657.chatter
英 ['tʃætə]美 ['tʃætɚ]

背面
释义:
vi. 唠叨;喋喋不休;(动物等)吱吱叫vt. 喋喋不休地说;使卡嗒卡嗒作声n. 唠叨;饶舌;(动物的)啁啾声;潺潺流水声
例句:
1. Brian kept up the idle chatter for another five minutes.布赖恩又絮絮地唠叨了5分钟。

1. extra- "outside" + vag- + -ant.2. => wander outside or beyond.3. => excessive, extreme; wasteful, lavish.
chatter 聊天来自chat. -er,表反复。
chatter (v.)early 13c., chateren "to twitter, gossip," earlier cheateren, chiteren, of echoic origin. Compare Dutch koeteren "jabber," Danish kvidre "twitter, chirp." Related: Chattered; chattering. Phrase chattering class in use by 1893, with a reference perhaps from 1843: Such was the most interesting side of the fatal event to that idle chattering class of London life to whom the collision of heaven and earth were important only as affording matter for "news!" [Catherine Grace F. Gore ("Mrs. Gore"), "The Banker's Wife," 1843] chatter (n.)mid-13c., originally of birds, from chatter (v.)."

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