patter 的 3 个定义
- to make a rapid succession of light taps: Raindrops patter on the windowpane.
- to move or walk lightly or quickly: The child pattered across the room.
- to cause to patter.
- to spatter with something.
- a rapid succession of light tapping sounds: the steady patter of rain on the tin roof.
- the act of pattering.
patter 近义词
light walk; soft beat
casual talk
gab, chatter
更多patter例句
- While there are plenty of sounds to choose from, our favorites included the gentle patter of rainfall, which masked a bed partner’s snores.
- In the patter around, and woven into, his brisk piano reading of “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out” he recalled his late friend and longtime bandmate Clarence Clemons.
- Demi had been keeping up a soft patter of chat, but just now she wasn’t sure what to say.
- “Without knowing it, during the kite chases I was learning how to get around — by sensing the currents of air and by listening to the patter of feet on a roof, to the scrapes of shoes along a wall,” he wrote.
- The scenes are succinct, by and large; the patter of the characters rolls right along, whether you catch their drift or not.
- But feverish speculation and the constant patter of Vaudevillian innuendo came to overshadow more serious business.
- Her father, Frederick Dalziel, was British and with a bearing and patter that suggested far more wealth than he had.
- You pretty much can't get a better absurdist parody of politicians' vapid sure-is-nice-to-be-here patter than that.
- My heart kept up its pitter-patter as I continued reading down the thread.
- The short steps patter on the bridge connecting the upper rotunda with the cell-house, and pass along the gallery.
- When the carriage-door was shut and the driver was mounting his box, the same old patter attracted my attention.
- Weston looked up sharply as a patter of approaching footsteps rose out of the shadows behind him.
- At that moment there was the sound of a scream, then the patter of running feet in the court below.
- Let others who have more sin on their souls, and are more frighted by priests' patter, go if they list.