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prating

/preyt/US // preɪt //UK // (preɪt) //

审价,审讯,审视,审慎的

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    prat·ed, prat·ing.

    • : to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
v.有主动词 verb
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    prat·ed, prat·ing.

    • : to utter in empty or foolish talk: to prate absurdities with the greatest seriousness.
n.名词 noun
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    • : act of prating.
    • : empty or foolish talk.

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Examples

  • 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.