babble
英 ['bæb(ə)l]
美['bæbl]
- vi. 喋喋不休；呀呀学语；作潺潺声
- vt. 含糊不清地说；泄露
- n. 含糊不清的话；胡言乱语；潺潺声
词态变化
第三人称单数: babbles;过去式: babbled;过去分词: babbled;现在分词: babbling;
助记提示
1. 区别：bubble, babble.
2. babble 是由拟声词根*ba-(模拟小孩咿哑学语言的声音)演变而来，由此两个词就区分开了。
3. bubble 也应该是拟声词，由*bo-(对应汉语为：啵，啵；就是模拟吹气泡发出的声音)拟声词根演变而来，然后元音降级（-o- => -u-）而得。
4. Babble：可能来自Babel，圣经中的巴别塔，一座人类建造通往天庭的塔，上帝为阻止人类的企图而混杂了人类的语言，使人类无法合作。所以引申为声音、语言的嘈杂。而babble（说傻话，牙牙学语）也是语言上的混乱不清。联想：从巴别塔Babel上下来的人都说傻话babble。----说蠢话，牙牙学语。
2. babble 是由拟声词根*ba-(模拟小孩咿哑学语言的声音)演变而来，由此两个词就区分开了。
3. bubble 也应该是拟声词，由*bo-(对应汉语为：啵，啵；就是模拟吹气泡发出的声音)拟声词根演变而来，然后元音降级（-o- => -u-）而得。
4. Babble：可能来自Babel，圣经中的巴别塔，一座人类建造通往天庭的塔，上帝为阻止人类的企图而混杂了人类的语言，使人类无法合作。所以引申为声音、语言的嘈杂。而babble（说傻话，牙牙学语）也是语言上的混乱不清。联想：从巴别塔Babel上下来的人都说傻话babble。----说蠢话，牙牙学语。
中文词源
babble 含混不清的说话
拟声词。
英英释意
- 1. gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
英文词源
- babble (v.)
- mid-13c., babeln "to prattle, chatter," akin to other Western European words for stammering and prattling (cognates: Swedish babbla, Old French babillier) attested from the same era, some of which probably were borrowed from others, but etymologists cannot now determine which were original. Probably imitative of baby-talk, in any case (compare Latin babulus "babbler," Greek barbaros "non-Greek-speaking"). "No direct connexion with Babel can be traced; though association with that may have affected the senses" [OED]. Meaning "to repeat oneself incoherently, speak foolishly" is attested from c. 1400. Related: Babbled; babbler; babbling; babblement.
- babble (n.)
- "idle talk," c. 1500, from babble (v.). In 16c., commonly in reduplicated form bibble-babble.
实用场景例句
- a babble of voices
- 人声嘈杂
牛津词典
- I can't listen to his constant babble.
- 我听不得他那没完没了的瞎扯。
牛津词典
- They were all babbling away in a foreign language.
- 他们都叽里咕噜地说着外语。
牛津词典
- I realized I was babbling like an idiot.
- 我意识到我像个傻瓜一样在胡言乱语。
牛津词典
- a babbling brook
- 潺潺的小溪
牛津词典
- Momma babbled on and on about how he was ruining me...
- 妈妈喋喋不休地念叨着他正如何毁掉我。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They all babbled simultaneously...
- 他们同时叽里咕噜地说了起来。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- Kemp knocked loudly so as to be heard above the high babble of voices...
- 肯普大声敲着，好让人们在一片高声喧嚷中听到他的声音。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They began to curse and shout in a babble of languages.
- 他们开始用不同的语言叽里咕噜地谩骂吵嚷起来。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- I heard the babble of many voices.
- 我听到许多乱哄哄的说话声.
期刊摘选
- They could hear a loud babble of voices coming from the crowded bar.
- 他们能听到拥挤的酒吧传出来的嘈杂声.
《简明英汉词典》
- Pockets of silence are better than padding an interview with random babble.
- 片刻间歇的缄默比用胡说八道填充面试要更好.
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- Instead of writing , I had been able to babble to you.
- 我能够对你用唠唠叨叨的谈话代替写信.
辞典例句
- Teachers do not like students who babble on about nothing.
- 老师不喜欢整天不知所云的学生.
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- Have you heard the babble of running water?
- 你听到那潺潺流水声了 吗 ?
辞典例句
- Anyway , thank God, he didn't have time to babble.
- 感谢上帝, 他总算没来得及泄漏秘密.
辞典例句
- The water will cling round your feet and babble its secret.
- 湖水将回绕在你的脚边,潺潺地说出它的秘密.
期刊摘选
- My favorite music is the babble of strange tongues in the marketplace.
- 我最喜爱的音乐就是广场上用奇怪的声调发出的生意.
期刊摘选
- But these days a new language can be heard in the commercial babble: Chinese.
- 但最近可以听见新的招揽生意的含混语言: 汉语.
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- Keep where thou canst hear the babble of the brook. "
- 就在能听到流水声的地方好了. ”
英汉文学 - 红字
- The babble of voices in the next compartment annoyed all of us.
- 隔壁的车厢隔间里不间歇的嘈杂谈话声让我们都很气恼.
《简明英汉词典》
- No one could understand the little baby's babble.
- 没人能听懂这个小婴孩的话.
期刊摘选
- Sleeper minds cannot process the language, and they mishear it as noise or foreign babble.
- 沉睡者的意志无法接受这种语言, 在他们听来就像是噪音或含糊不清的外语.
期刊摘选
- He felt a compulsion to babble on about the accident.
- 他感到自己有种想透露事故经过的强烈冲动.
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- The heavy smells , the foreign babble , the garish multitudinous signs in a strange alphabet, dizzied him.
- 那股强烈的气味, 那种陌生的语言,以及许多稀奇古怪的文字写的花里花哨的招牌, 叫他头昏眼花.
辞典例句
- How does low fever last to do during children grows vi babble?
- 小孩子长牙牙期间持续低烧怎么办?
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- Don't babble the secret ( out ) to them.
- 别多嘴把秘密泄露给他们.
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- How to often brush vi babble to return nigrescent ah?
- 经常刷牙牙怎么还发黑啊?
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