| 单词 | babble |
| 释义 | babble (once / 1303 pages) 1vn 2v To babble is to talk on and on without a particular goal. It might drive you crazy when your little sister babbles endlessly about her favorite video game. Babble sounds like Babel, the Biblical tower where everyone was talking in their own language. Everyone was babbling without paying attention to their neighbors, like the kid who won’t stop talking about his trip to the water park three years ago. A stream or a brook can babble, too, but that’s more of a soothing sound of water against rocks. Babies gurgle, because they don’t have enough words to babble yet. WORD FAMILYbabble: babbled, babbler, babbles, babbling+/babbler: babblers/babbling: babblings USAGE EXAMPLESBacks are slapped and babies cooed over; a civilised babble fills the space. Economist(Dec 20, 2016) While he babbled happily at his family and nurses, Josue never got strong enough to be discharged to his Edgewater, Maryland, home. Seattle Times(Dec 20, 2016) The robotic babble emphasizes the youthful autocratic ideology that often propels manifestoes. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) 1 1v utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention Hyper mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize express in speech 2v to talk foolishly The two women babbled and crooned at the baby Syn|Hyper blather, blether, blither, smatter blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly 3v divulge confidential information or secrets Syn|Ant|Hyper babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle spill, talk reveal information keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret 4n gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby 2Syn|Hyper babbling, lallation gibber, gibberish unintelligible talking v flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise babbling brooks Syn|Hyper bubble, burble, guggle, gurgle, ripple gurgle make sounds similar to gurgling water go, sound make a certain noise or sound |
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