Prattle

(v. i.) To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

(v. t.) To utter as prattle; to babble; as, to prattle treason.

(n.) Trifling or childish tattle; empty talk; loquacity on trivial subjects; prate; babble.

校对:鲁本

• I like their prattle; it does me good. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I am not fond of the prattle of children, he continued; for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected with their lisp. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• O no, not at all, she said, returning to the boy's prattle. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Tis very nonsense of an old man to prattle so when life and death's in mangling. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Miss Crawley allowed Briggs to prattle on without interrupting her too much. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Jessy, with her little piquant face, engaging prattle, and winning ways, is made to be a pet, and her father's pet she accordingly is. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• And so the pair went on prattling, as in quite early days. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Then, among the advancing echoes, there was the tread of her tiny feet and the sound of her prattling words. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The mated pairs were prattling away quite happily, and Dobbin knew he was as clean forgotten as if he had never existed in this world. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• If there ever were a pair of twins in danger of being utterly spoiled by adoration, it was these prattling Brookes. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• They talked and prattled at random, he always as if he were well, just the same as when he was going about. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The absent lord's children meanwhile prattled and grew on quite unconscious that the doom was over them too. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• She heard that we were bound for Greece, that she would see her father, and now, for the first time, she prattled of him to her mother. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• To seize upon me the very day after Mrs. Bute was gone, the old lady prattled on; it was too indecent. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• A bubbling spring prattles over stones on one side, and a plantation of a few elms and beeches, hardly deserve, and yet continue the name of wood. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

整理:塞尔瓦托