drivel

英 [ˈdrɪvl]

美 [ˈdrɪvl]

n.  蠢话; 傻话; 废话
v.  老是说傻话; 喋喋不休地说无聊话

现在分词：drivelling　过去式：drivelled　第三人称单数：drivels　过去分词：drivelled　

GRE

BNC.34571 / COCA.27601

牛津词典

noun

• 蠢话；傻话；废话
  silly nonsense
  1. How can you watch that drivel on TV?
     你怎么能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西？

verb

• 老是说傻话；喋喋不休地说无聊话
  to keep talking about silly or unimportant things

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 蠢话;废话
  If you describe something that is written or said asdrivel, you are critical of it because you think it is very silly.
  1. What absolute drivel!
     一派胡言！
  2. She is still writing mindless drivel.
     她还在写些没头没脑的东西。

英英释义

noun

• saliva spilling from the mouth
  Synonym:drooldribbleslobber
• a worthless message
  Synonym:garbage

verb

• let saliva drivel from the mouth
  1. The baby drooled
  Synonym:droolslabberslaverslobberdribble

双语例句

• You do talk drivel sometimes!
  你有时候还真会说傻话！
• Which is just the sort of meaningless drivel that will make this new economic power fit right in with the business supremos of the Anglo-Saxon world.
  凭着这类毫无意义的废话，这个新兴经济大国与盎格鲁撒克逊世界的商业巨擘们将会很合得来。
• But often once you buy a book you feel to read it, even if it is drivel.
  但是你可能经常会买回来一本你发现并不喜欢的书。
• Most of what he said was absolute drivel.
  他说的大多数话都是胡言乱语。
• The promotional video for the event shows MS Shriver talking a blue streak of drivel.
  在该活动的宣传视频中，施莱弗女士废话连篇。
• But whether you should consider leaving depends on four things: the frequency of the drivel; your proximity to it; how seriously it is taken by others and, most crucially, whether you have to pretend to take it seriously yourself.
  然而，是否应该考虑离开取决于四个方面：废话出现的频率；你与它的距离：其他同事对待它的认真程度，最重要的是，你自己是否必须假装认真对待它。
• The most usual sort of drivel is intermittent, comes from someone distant, usually in HR, and is routinely ignored by all.
  最常见的那种废话是间歇性出现的，来自远处的某个人（通常在人力资源部门），而且通常被所有人忽略。
• What all this tells us is not that all women talk drivel, but that everyone talks drivel when they start thinking about women as a general topic.
  这一切所昭示的，并非所有女性都废话连篇，而是当人们开始把女性作为一个主题来考量时，人人都会说些废话。
• This is utter rot. Some of the very best salesmen talk the most awful drivel and have emerged from school without any flair for grammar.
  一些最优秀的销售人员说着最糟糕的傻话，他们从学校毕业时没掌握任何语法。
• Xiangzi couldn't bear to listen to this drivel.
  祥子不能再听这些闲盘儿。