词汇 | nattering |
释义 | nattering present participle ofnatter natter verb[ I ] UKinformaluk /ˈnæt.ər/ us /ˈnæt̬.ɚ/ to talk continuously for a long time without any particular purpose: (长时间地)唠叨,闲聊 Once he starts nattering you just can't stop him.一旦他开始唠叨,你就别想打断他。 My mother and her friends natter away on the phone all evening.我母亲和她的朋友们整晚在电话里闲聊个没完。 Synonym chat Informal talking & conversation a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom banter bantering banteringly bants bloviate bull session buzz catch conversational exchange gambit intercourse pass persiflage put the world to rightsidiom take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom talk some sense into sbidiom tête-à-tête understand Examples of natteringnattering In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Nattering was the probability that the parent responded with aversive behavior, regardless of the child's behavior. Nattering was dropped because it loaded on both the positive and negative factors of parenting behavior. The nattering indicator was computed as the probability that the parent would direct negative behavior at the target boy, given that the parent was interacting with the boy. I have been nattering about differential taxation for years. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trouble is that we need more than nattering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What are they nattering about? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is wrong with "nattering"? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I shall now finish my nattering. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But his nattering is cut short when the clouds block the moonlight and when his phone's battery dies leaving him in darkness. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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