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

• How can you watch that drivel on TV?
  你怎麽能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Xiangzi couldn't bear to listen to this drivel.
  祥子不能再听这些闲盘儿。
• This is triple-A drivel.
  这是个三A级的胡话。
• 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。
• But there is too little gold and too much drivel.
  但是宝贵的东西太少，胡言乱语太多。
• She is still writing mindless drivel.
  她还在写些没头没脑的东西。
• Don't talk such drivel!
  不要讲这么无聊的话！