prating 的 3 个定义
prat·ed, prat·ing.
- to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
prat·ed, prat·ing.
- to utter in empty or foolish talk: to prate absurdities with the greatest seriousness.
- act of prating.
- empty or foolish talk.
prating 近义词
babble
更多prating例句
- Weakness and foolish prating about righteousness and virtue were never worth a dollar.
- Well, Mr. Macdonald was prating, as usual, about the antiquity of Scotland and its aeons of stirring history.
- Prating like a school-boy about a summons from Miss Wardour.
- But the Huguenot generals evidently imagined that there was nothing in the speech beyond the prating of a silly braggart.
- A hundred priests prating to the same effect in a hundred quarters produced no contemptible result.