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

• 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。
• If what he meant was that in 2010 consultants would continue to pass off drivel as wisdom, he had already proved himself right. Then I read Allan Leighton's advice to businesses for the new year.
  如果他指的是，咨询公司在2010年将继续用废话冒充智慧，那么他已经证明了自己的观点。接着，我阅读了阿兰雷顿（AllanLeighton）对各家企业的新年建言。
• Both men are creating a new sort of business drivel: billionaire financier drivel.
  这两人都在创造一种新的商业胡话：亿万富翁金融家的胡话。
• Don't talk such drivel!
  不要讲这么无聊的话！
• 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。
• 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。
• You and the lunatic fringe that listen to this drivel have ruined the country, and subverted conservatism into the ideology of hate.
  你和那些听这些胡言乱语的极端分子简直毁了这个国家，愚蠢地把保守主义颠覆成了怨恨！
• You do talk drivel sometimes!
  你有时候还真会说傻话！
• Now don't you give me that stale drivel, Leslie.
  莱斯里，你别也来向我胡扯那套陈词滥调。
• No offence, mark, butwe both know thatthis is drivel.
  别生气，马克，但你我都清楚这是骗人的。