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twaddle

/twod-l/US // ˈtwɒd l //UK // (ˈtwɒdəl) //

胡说八道,胡言乱语,胡扯,废话连篇

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    twad·dled, twad·dling.

    • : to talk in a trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious manner; prate.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    twad·dled, twad·dling.

    • : to utter as twaddle.

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Examples

  • Fernandez hopes that future studies will conduct neurological work to watch the bats’ brains during toddler twaddle and look for similarities to brain development in human children.

  • In Normal Accidents, sociologist Charles Perrow argued that this was self-comforting twaddle.

  • Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a séance.

  • Science and system are far more efficacious than much of the old-fashioned granny's twaddle.

  • Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a sance.

  • It is made out of a little lump of tawdry material which says nothing, is, indeed, mere twaddle.

  • Merle can talk the whole bunch down when he gets to shooting on all six—sounds good, but I've no doubt it's just wise twaddle.