| 英语单词 | chatter |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 ['tʃætə(r)] 美 ['tʃætər] |
| 中文释义 | n.饶舌;啁啾;喋喋不休地谈;(小溪的)潺潺流水声;(牙齿)打颤 v.喋喋不休地谈;咔嗒作响 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Girls have a stronger tendency to chatter than boys. (2) So does all bird chatter or animal sounds have a communication behind it. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 女孩子较男孩子性好饶舌。 (2) 所有鸟类的啁啾声或动物的声音后都有着交流。 |
| vocabulary简明 | To chatter is to talk lightly or casually — to shoot the breeze or chitchat. You might chatter with your workmates about the weather or where you'll eat lunch. |
| vocabulary扩展 | You probably chatter with your friends all the time without even thinking about it, gossiping or talking about unimportant things. You can call the talk itself chatter too: "The chatter in the cafeteria was so loud I couldn't hear myself think." In the 13th century, it was chateren, from an imitative Middle English root. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [VERB 动词]唠叨;喋喋不休 If you chatter, you talk quickly and continuously, usually about things which are not important. [V adv/prep] [V [V-ing] [Also V] [usu
2 [VERB 动词](牙齿)打战,咯咯响 If your teeth chatter, they keep knocking together because you are very cold or very nervous. [V]
3 [VERB 动词]发出咯咯声(或嗒嗒声) If objects chatter, they make short repeated sounds. [V]
4 [VERB 动词](鸟)鸣叫,啁啾;(动物)唧唧叫,吱吱叫 When birds or animals chatter, they make high-pitched noises. [V] [LITERARY 文]
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