| 词汇 | tattle |
| 释义 | tattle verb[ I ] USuk /ˈtæt.əl/ us /ˈtæt̬.əl/ to secretly tell someone in authority, especially a teacher, that someone else has done something bad, often in order to cause trouble: 告密;（尤指向老师）打小报告 Did you tattle on us to the teacher?你是不是向老师告我们状了？ Ways of talking atonally beg the questionidiom blah blither come out coo pipe up prate spit something out spluttery stammer stiltedly sweet nothings talk nonsenseidiom talk through your hatidiom telegrammatic turn of phrase undertone wax witter Examples of tattletattle No one is safe from being tattled on. From Wired I think the worst use of the blind carbon copy is to rat out or tattle on a coworker. From USA TODAY When the son's manager finally had the courage to tattle to the boss, he fired his own son. From TIME There's an implicit rank-pulling or tattling involved when you add an acc; bringing in someone else is no way to e-behave. From NPR While no one wants to feel like they're "tattling" on a friend, there are times when it's appropriate to bring in another party. From Huffington Post Young children certainly tattle, but do they similarly manage reputations among peers through prosocial gossip? From NPR She was such a tattle-tale. From Slate Magazine They tattle when he opens the refrigerator. From CNN Hey, allies: it's your responsibility to tattle. From The Verge In this incident, there is a chain of tattling to authority figures. She collected all the scandal, all the stories, all the tattle, all the suspicions. From Project Gutenberg He thought he would get so far away that the dog could not go back to the village and tattle. From Project Gutenberg They played about his feet; they chirped, hopped, and tattled; they peered side-ways at him and gave him jerky nods of greeting. From Project Gutenberg I sat myself quietly in the corner to await the return of the parents, and listen to the tattle of the children. From Project Gutenberg He did not wish to "tattle" on anybody, and, besides, not having a forward nature, he shrank from the exposure. From Project Gutenberg 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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