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patter n.急速拍打声；轻快脚步声；行话；顺口溜v.喋喋不休；滴嗒地响；发出急速轻拍声 (1) 他听到利比踢里挞拉的脚步声跑来接电话。(2) 你可得学乖点(3) 艾丽斯真是天真，滑稽演员的急口台词她一半也不懂。(4) 就在这时，噼噼啪啪的雨点落了下来。(5) 落叶嗒塔地打在玻璃窗上。 You can describe the way rain patters, or the way children's feet patter down the hallway on Christmas morning. The light, quick sound itself is also a patter: "Listen to the patter of sleet on the window!" Informally, a salesman's pitch can be called patter as well, from an older meaning, "talk rapidly," from pater, "mumble prayers rapidly." The tapping kind of patter has a different root, which it shares with pat.

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英 ['pætə(r)] 美 ['pætər] (1) He heard the patter of Libby's feet approach the phone.(2) You have to learn to resist the sales patter.(3) Alice, being as innocent as a new-born baby, didn't understand half of the comedian's patter.(4) Raindrops are starting to patter.(5) The falling leaves pattered against the windowpanes. When something patters, it makes a light, rhythmic, tapping sound. On a rainy night, you might love lying in bed listening to the rain patter on the roof. 1[VERB 动词]嗒嗒作响；嗒嗒地拍 If something patters on a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds.   [V adv/prep]Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.外面，松树上的雨水滴落在屋顶上，嗒嗒作响。2[N-SING 单数名词]急促的轻拍声；嗒嗒声 A patter is a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds.   [oft the N of n]...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声3[N-SING 单数名词]（通常以娱乐、推销或劝说为目的的）顺口溜，伶俐话，连珠炮似的叫卖语 Someone's patter is a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something.   [usu poss N]There's no doubt women found him charming. It must have been his patter because he's certainly not at all good-looking...女人们无疑会觉得他很迷人。这肯定是因为他的顺口溜，因为他长得一点儿都不好看。Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained.弗兰开始不由自主地唠叨起乔恩是怎样无可避免地被扣留的。

英语单词	patter
英美音标	英 ['pætə(r)] 美 ['pætər]
中文释义	n.急速拍打声；轻快脚步声；行话；顺口溜 v.喋喋不休；滴嗒地响；发出急速轻拍声
英语例句	(1) He heard the patter of Libby's feet approach the phone. (2) You have to learn to resist the sales patter. (3) Alice, being as innocent as a new-born baby, didn't understand half of the comedian's patter. (4) Raindrops are starting to patter. (5) The falling leaves pattered against the windowpanes.
中文例句	(1) 他听到利比踢里挞拉的脚步声跑来接电话。 (2) 你可得学乖点 (3) 艾丽斯真是天真，滑稽演员的急口台词她一半也不懂。 (4) 就在这时，噼噼啪啪的雨点落了下来。 (5) 落叶嗒塔地打在玻璃窗上。
vocabulary简明	When something patters, it makes a light, rhythmic, tapping sound. On a rainy night, you might love lying in bed listening to the rain patter on the roof.
vocabulary扩展	You can describe the way rain patters, or the way children's feet patter down the hallway on Christmas morning. The light, quick sound itself is also a patter: "Listen to the patter of sleet on the window!" Informally, a salesman's pitch can be called patter as well, from an older meaning, "talk rapidly," from pater, "mumble prayers rapidly." The tapping kind of patter has a different root, which it shares with pat.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]嗒嗒作响；嗒嗒地拍 If something patters on a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds. [V adv/prep] Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines. 外面，松树上的雨水滴落在屋顶上，嗒嗒作响。 2 [N-SING 单数名词]急促的轻拍声；嗒嗒声 A patter is a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds. [oft the N of n] ...the patter of the driving rain on the roof. 暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声 3 [N-SING 单数名词]（通常以娱乐、推销或劝说为目的的）顺口溜，伶俐话，连珠炮似的叫卖语 Someone's patter is a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something. [usu poss N] There's no doubt women found him charming. It must have been his patter because he's certainly not at all good-looking... 女人们无疑会觉得他很迷人。这肯定是因为他的顺口溜，因为他长得一点儿都不好看。 Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained. 弗兰开始不由自主地唠叨起乔恩是怎样无可避免地被扣留的。

Patter Tapping Rain Feet Light Roof Quickly Quiet