drivel

英 [ˈdrɪvl]

美 [ˈdrɪvl]

n.  蠢话; 傻话; 废话
v.  老是说傻话; 喋喋不休地说无聊话

现在分词：drivelling　过去式：drivelled　第三人称单数：drivels　过去分词：drivelled　

GRE

BNC.34571 / COCA.27601

牛津词典

noun

• 蠢话；傻话；废话
  silly nonsense
  1. How can you watch that drivel on TV?
     你怎么能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西？

verb

• 老是说傻话；喋喋不休地说无聊话
  to keep talking about silly or unimportant things

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 蠢话;废话
  If you describe something that is written or said asdrivel, you are critical of it because you think it is very silly.
  1. What absolute drivel!
     一派胡言！
  2. She is still writing mindless drivel.
     她还在写些没头没脑的东西。

英英释义

noun

• saliva spilling from the mouth
  Synonym:drooldribbleslobber
• a worthless message
  Synonym:garbage

verb

• let saliva drivel from the mouth
  1. The baby drooled
  Synonym:droolslabberslaverslobberdribble

双语例句

• If what he meant was that in 2010 consultants would continue to pass off drivel as wisdom, he had already proved himself right. Then I read Allan Leighton's advice to businesses for the new year.
  如果他指的是，咨询公司在2010年将继续用废话冒充智慧，那么他已经证明了自己的观点。接着，我阅读了阿兰雷顿（AllanLeighton）对各家企业的新年建言。
• But there is too little gold and too much drivel.
  但是宝贵的东西太少，胡言乱语太多。
• Which is just the sort of meaningless drivel that will make this new economic power fit right in with the business supremos of the Anglo-Saxon world.
  凭着这类毫无意义的废话，这个新兴经济大国与盎格鲁撒克逊世界的商业巨擘们将会很合得来。
• The most usual sort of drivel is intermittent, comes from someone distant, usually in HR, and is routinely ignored by all.
  最常见的那种废话是间歇性出现的，来自远处的某个人（通常在人力资源部门），而且通常被所有人忽略。
• Now don't you give me that stale drivel, Leslie.
  莱斯里，你别也来向我胡扯那套陈词滥调。
• Catherine, before you buy into this drivel, ask yourself why does China have a trade surplus with the US, and why the US has trouble paying its debt, i.e raising the debt ceiling?
  凯瑟琳，在你说出这些胡言乱语之前，问问自己，为什么中国对美国有一个贸易顺差，以及我们为什么支付债务困难，提高债务上限？
• This is utter rot. Some of the very best salesmen talk the most awful drivel and have emerged from school without any flair for grammar.
  一些最优秀的销售人员说着最糟糕的傻话，他们从学校毕业时没掌握任何语法。
• But whether you should consider leaving depends on four things: the frequency of the drivel; your proximity to it; how seriously it is taken by others and, most crucially, whether you have to pretend to take it seriously yourself.
  然而，是否应该考虑离开取决于四个方面：废话出现的频率；你与它的距离：其他同事对待它的认真程度，最重要的是，你自己是否必须假装认真对待它。
• Employees are likely to laugh their tails off at any boss who cites this drivel as inspiration.
  老板要把这一派胡言奉为灵感，雇员可能会笑掉大牙。
• When I left, she was still drivel in gon about her popularity in school.
  我离开时她还在瞎扯她学校出风头的事。