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

• 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。
• What all this tells us is not that all women talk drivel, but that everyone talks drivel when they start thinking about women as a general topic.
  这一切所昭示的，并非所有女性都废话连篇，而是当人们开始把女性作为一个主题来考量时，人人都会说些废话。
• Don't talk such drivel!
  不要讲这么无聊的话！
• They pandered& first to the "general public" and then to "the youth demo," with all kinds of terrible, marketing-department-inspired drivel.
  报纸开始迎合，首先是迎合“公众”，然后是迎合“年轻人”，在营销部门的激励下，它们几乎尝试了各种各样可怕的愚蠢行为。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 often once you buy a book you feel to read it, even if it is drivel.
  但是你可能经常会买回来一本你发现并不喜欢的书。
• In any case, employees generally don't bother to read the management drivel that lands in their in-boxes, and when they do they hardly ever take it seriously.
  不管怎样，员工们一般不会费心去查阅收件箱里管理层的那些鬼话，即使看了也从不会当真。
• 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。