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

• When I left, she was still drivel in gon about her popularity in school.
  我离开时她还在瞎扯她学校出风头的事。
• This is triple-A drivel.
  这是个三A级的胡话。
• You do talk drivel sometimes!
  你有时候还真会说傻话！
• 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。
• 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。
• It is certainly surprising that such a highly reputable magazine should drivel about the matter.
  声誉很高的杂志竟然对此事胡言一派，确实令人诧异。
• You're going to have to rewrite this essay-at the moment, it's just drivel.
  你得重写这篇文章按现在的情形看，它根本就是言之无物。
• In any case, employees generally don't bother to read the management drivel that lands in their in-boxes, and when they do they hardly ever take it seriously.
  不管怎样，员工们一般不会费心去查阅收件箱里管理层的那些鬼话，即使看了也从不会当真。
• 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？
• 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。