prate

vi. 唠叨, 空谈 vt. 瞎扯 n. 唠叨, 空谈, 瞎扯

发音

US /pɹeɪt/

词形变化

prates 复数 prates prated prates 三单 prateth prating prating 现在分词 prated 过去式 prated 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.

    及物/不及物

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

prattle blether chin music

上位词 5

chatter yak cackle yack yakety-yak
动词

同义词 10

chatter clack blab blabber tattle prattle gabble gibber maunder palaver

上位词 6

talk speak mouth utter verbalize verbalise

下位词 5

babble blather blether blither smatter

词源

From Middle English praten; either inherited from Old English prætt or borrowed via Middle Dutch or Middle Low German praten (from Old Saxon *pratt), all from Proto-West Germanic *prattu, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *bred- (“to wander, rove”). Related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, dated German pfrassen, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata;; also cognate with Polish bredzić (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian bradāt (“to talk nonsense”).

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