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单词 blab
释义
blabblab /blæb/ verb (past tense and past participle blabbed, present participle blabbing) [intransitive] informal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINblab
Origin:
1500-1600 blab ‘person who talks too much, too much talk’ (14-20 centuries), probably from the sound
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
blab
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyblab
he, she, itblabs
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyblabbed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave blabbed
he, she, ithas blabbed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad blabbed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill blab
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have blabbed
Continuous Form
PresentIam blabbing
he, she, itis blabbing
you, we, theyare blabbing
PastI, he, she, itwas blabbing
you, we, theywere blabbing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been blabbing
he, she, ithas been blabbing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been blabbing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be blabbing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been blabbing
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Better not say anything about it to Mickey -- he'll just end up blabbing to someone.
  • Kerri told her agent, who then went and blabbed it to all the reporters.
  • OK I'll tell you, but you'd better not blab!
  • She went and blabbed about Ernie's surprise party.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • As he roared by, the man never saw me or stopped blabbing into his cellular telephone.
  • But the fact is that he blabbed about the relationship.
  • He was blabbing so much about skiing and all that junk.
  • He wouldn't blab, even to close friends, about family problems.
  • Newt Gingrich is not the first member of Congress to be burned by blabbing on a cellular phone.
  • People who blab on their car phones operate in an altered state.
  • She blabbed to the Press and they hounded me until I left the country.
  • What had happened to previous women who had blabbed, either for love or for money?
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorto tell someone something that was a secret
to tell someone something that should be kept secret: · What did she say? Tell me!· If someone asked me to keep a secret I would never tell.tell somebody where/what/who etc: · He didn't tell me where he got this information.tell somebody about something: · Don't tell anyone about this just yet.tell somebody a secret: · Come here Eva - let me tell you a secret.tell somebody something in the strictest confidence (=tell someone something on the condition that they do not tell anyone): · I'm telling you this in the strictest confidence, so not a word to anyone.
especially written to let people know about something that was previously kept secret: · The company has just revealed its plans for the coming year, including the opening of new offices in Paris.· What actually happened to the gold has never been revealed.reveal (that): · Markov revealed that he had once worked for the CIA.· Ginsberg withdrew his application to become Attorney General after it was revealed that he had smoked marijuana at college.
to publicly reveal something such as a fact or a name that has been kept secret or hidden: · The agent does not have to disclose the amount his client paid.disclose that: · In the report it was disclosed that neither pilot nor controller had any experience of the radar system in use at the time of the crash.disclose information/details/evidence etc: · The Security Service is unlikely to disclose any information.disclose somebody's identity (=say who someone is): · He refused to disclose the identity of the politician.
to make a piece of important information known to the public, especially after keeping it secret for some time: · The Senator will make his decision public on Friday.· Reporters learned the news on Friday but agreed not to make it public until the following day.make it public that: · Freddie Mercury died only two days after making it public that he was suffering from AIDS.
formal to give someone some very important and often personal information which was previously secret or unknown: · The other three companies refused to divulge their plans.divulge what/where/when etc: · I'm afraid I cannot divulge what Jameson said to me.divulge something to somebody: · The contract forbids employees to divulge details of this work to anyone outside the company.
to tell the public about the secret activities of a person or organization, because you think that people ought to know about something morally wrong that is being done: · Her criminal activities were finally exposed in the Washington Post by political columnist Richard McCallum.expose to: · They threatened to expose him to the media unless he changed his ways.
to deliberately give secret government information to a newspaper or television company: · A man was charged today with leaking official secrets.· The Congressman was furious that the report had been leaked.leak something to somebody: · The contents of the fax were leaked to the press
informal to tell someone about something that has been planned and was supposed to be a secret: · "Does Phillip know about our plan?" "Yes, someone must have spilled the beans."· The class managed to keep the party a secret until Lorraine, unable to control herself any longer, spilled the beans.
informal to tell someone about a secret plan or idea so that they are involved in it, especially because you trust them: · We'll let you in on our plan if you promise to keep it a secret.· I know you're up to something so you might as well let me in on it.
informal to tell someone a secret - use this when you disapprove of this: · OK I'll tell you, but you'd better not blab!blab about: · She went and blabbed about Ernie's surprise party.blab to: · Better not say anything about it to Mickey -- he'll just end up blabbing to someone.
to tell someone something that should be kept secret SYN  gossipblab to Don’t go blabbing to your friends about this.
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