blather
英语
编辑词源 1
编辑源自中古英语 bletheren、bloderen，源自古诺尔斯语 blaðra (“说胡话”)。与低地苏格兰语 blether、bladder、bledder (“胡扯”)，德语方言bladdern (“说胡话”)、挪威语 bladra (“含糊不清地说”)、冰岛语 blaðra (“说废话”)同源。
其他形式
编辑- blether (英国北部、苏格兰、爱尔兰北部)
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编辑blather (第三人称单数简单现在时 blathers，现在分词 blathering，一般过去时及过去分词 blathered)
- (不及物，贬义) 喋喋不休地胡扯
- Template:RQ:Eliot Felix Holt
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- 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, 2014, section 5:[1]
- On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.
- (及物，贬义) 胡说道，乱讲说
- 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, Act I, scene i, page 31:[2]
- Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!
- 1974, Robert Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, part 3, page 214:[3]
- […] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.
- 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, Act I, scene i, page 31:[2]
衍生词汇
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编辑blather (不可数)
- (贬义) 胡话，蠢话
- 1897, G. A. Henty, With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, p. 16,[4]
- That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;
- 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 23, p. 265,[5]
- Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
- 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Part 5, p. 280,[6]
- With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.
- 1897, G. A. Henty, With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, p. 16,[4]
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编辑blather (复数 blathers)
- bladder的弃用形式。
- 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,[7]