单词 | gabble |
释义 | gab·ble1 /ˈɡæbəl/ verb (gabbled, gabbling) [intransitive, transitive] TALK TO somebodyto say something so quickly that people cannot hear you clearly or understand you properly 咕噜,急促不清地说(话) Just calm down, stop gabbling, and tell me what has happened. 冷静一下,说话别太急,告诉我发生了什么事。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusgabble• Squeezing her eyes so tightly shut that they looked like senile lips, Mary began to gabble.• Leila threw herself on Quincx, gabbling about what happened.• O'Neill was gabbling and the conversation was running away like a driverless express.• They charged into the other dressing rooms, gabbling as they started a quick change for another number.• Very sensible of Hilda: nothing is more ridiculous than an old-age pensioner gabbling on about his or her risqué past.gabble2 noun [singular, uncountable] TALK TO somebodya lot of talking that is difficult to understand, especially when several people are talking at the same time 〔几个人同时的〕混杂的说话声 SYN babble a gabble of voices 嘈杂的人声Examples from the Corpusgabble• A series of whoops came from round the pit, followed by a shout and a gabble of voices.• Words gushed out incontinently: a gabble, of which, alas, it was only too easy to make sense.• Then, from a long way off, I heard a high, laughing gabble, faint and coming closer.• When the reverberations ceased, the gabble of the audience also did.• the gabble of the audience before the showOrigin gabble1 (1500-1600) Perhaps from Middle Dutch gabbelengab·ble1 verbgabble2 nounChineseSyllable hear cannot you something people that quickly Corpus to say so |
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