pattering

英 [ˈpætərɪŋ]

美 [ˈpætərɪŋ]

v.  发出轻快的拍打声; 轻盈地走
patter的现在分词

复数：patterings　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 嗒嗒作响；嗒嗒地拍
  If somethingpatterson a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds.
  1. Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.
     外面，松树上的雨水滴落在屋顶上，嗒嗒作响。
• N-SING 急促的轻拍声；嗒嗒声
  Apatteris a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds.
  1. ...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.
     暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声
• N-SING （通常以娱乐、推销或劝说为目的的）顺口溜，伶俐话，连珠炮似的叫卖语
  Someone'spatteris a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something.
  1. There's no doubt women found him charming. It must have been his patter because he's certainly not at all good-looking...
     女人们无疑会觉得他很迷人。这肯定是因为他的顺口溜，因为他长得一点儿都不好看。
  2. Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained.
     弗兰开始不由自主地唠叨起乔恩是怎样无可避免地被扣留的。

双语例句

• When Chu Kuei-ying reached her "home," it had already started raining, and heavy, scattered drops were pattering against the bamboo door.
  朱桂英到了她的所谓“家”的时候，已经在下雨了；很稀很大的雨点子，打得她“家”的竹门地响。
• It was in Xia, Shang, Zhou periods in Slave Society that the bronze and developed brilliantly, and the bronze decorative pattering were mainly composed of lines.
  奴隶社会的夏商周是青铜艺术的辉煌时期，这些青铜纹饰也主要是由线条构成的。
• Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
  接着传来楼梯上细碎的脚步声。
• "Tom, is that you pattering around downstairs?"
  “汤姆，是不是你在楼下嗒嗒地四处跑动？”
• With the wind moaning and the rain pattering, I lay awake all night.
  凄风苦雨，夜不能眠。
• We could hear mice pattering about in the attic above our heads.
  我们能听到老鼠在头顶上的阁楼上窜来窜去。
• We reached a price satisfactory to both of us, and struck hands on it. I heard feet pattering across the floor.
  我们在价格方面达成了双方都满意的协议，于是拍手成交。我听到从地板上拍拍跑过去的脚步声。
• Said the voice. Fetch me my gloves this moment! Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
  那个声音喊道，赶快给我拿手套，然后一连串小脚步声步上楼梯了。
• To listen to the falling rain, pattering on the grounds
  倾听雨声，滴答降落大地
• The reel was taken off and the house was silent except for the steady pattering of the rain on the iron roof.
  唱片取下了，整栋房子沉寂了。只有落在铁皮屋顶上的雨声淅淅沥沥，下个不停。