patter

• n. 行话；轻快脚步声；急速拍打声
• vi. 滴答地响；急速地说；发出急速轻拍声
• vt. 喋喋不休地说；使…发出嗒嗒声

来自pat,拍打，-re,表反复。

1. plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)

2. a quick succession of light rapid sounds;

"the patter of mice"

"the patter of tiny feet"

patter (v.1)

"make quick taps," 1610s, frequentative of pat (v.). Related: Pattered; pattering. As a noun in this sense from 1844.

patter (v.2)

"talk rapidly," c. 1400, from pater "mumble prayers rapidly" (c. 1300), shortened form of paternoster. Perhaps influenced by patter (v.1). The related noun is first recorded 1758, originally "cant language of thieves and beggars." Compare Devil's paternoster (1520s) "a grumbling and mumbling to oneself."

PATTERING. The maundering or pert replies of servants; also talk or palaver in order to amuse one intended to be cheated. [Grose, "Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 2nd edition. 1788]

the patter of feet/footsteps

哒哒的脚步声

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the patter of rain on the roof

雨打屋顶的啪哒声

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sales patter

推销员的一口气说话

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We can't wait to hear the patter of tiny feet.

我们恨不得早点有个小宝宝。

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Rain pattered against the window.

雨点啪哒啪哒地敲击着窗子。

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I heard her feet pattering along the corridor.

我听到她步履轻盈地在走廊上走过。

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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。

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...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.

暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声

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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。

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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。

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She can't wait for the patter of tiny feet.

她巴不得婴儿早日出生.

辞典例句

Pebble finished paper: Paper with a pebbled patter added after making or sometimes after printing.

卵石纹纸: 造纸后或间中在印刷后在纸上加上卵石纹理的纸.

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The bell died patter of rain, from hell came the laughing of Satan at my brain.

铃声止于雨落的节奏中, 地狱中传出了常驻我头脑中的恶魔的笑声.

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As I ponder that image, we are startled by a thumping patter behind us.

正当我想像那光景时, 我们忽然被后面一阵啪答啪答的沉重声吓了一跳.

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Standard flight attendant patter?

这是笑容可掬、彬彬有礼的空姐招呼乘客的语言 吗 ?

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For the informative features, Chinese news titles generally follow the patter: Given information + New information.

中文新闻在信息结构的主要特征为旧信息+新信息.

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Seldom can you hear the roar of the river. You cannot catch the patter.

我们很少听见河水的咆哮声或下面壁 架式 高原上三角叶杨树发出鼓掌般的劈啪声.

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Magmatic contact metamorphism can lead to the variations of distribution patter of REEs in coal.

岩浆接触变质作用可导致煤中稀土元素分布模式的变化.

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And improved effect is confirmed by SEM picture on patter cross section.

由图形结构的断面SEM照片验证了这项工艺的实际改善效果.

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We found the goods did am # 39 ; t agree with the original patter.

我们发现货物与原式样不符.

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And I got some patter with the capital gains tax , too.

我也能侃侃而谈投资利得所得税.

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Don't always patter yourself on others. Make something your own.

不要总是去模仿别人, 做出你自己的特色来.

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Monkwords, marybeads jabber on their girdles : roguewords, tough nuggets patter in their pockets.

僧侣话, 诵《玫瑰经》的念珠在他们的腰带上嘁嘁喳喳;江湖话, 硬梆梆的金币在他们的兜里当榔当啷.

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They will soon be hearing the patter of tiny feet.

他们很快就会有个小宝宝了.

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Growth cite and patter can be identified from CT manifestation.

胸部CT可准确反映原发病变的部位和生长方式.

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He heard the patter of Libby's feet approach the phone.

他听到利比踢里挞拉的脚步声跑来接电话.

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The chestnuts and acorns in showers, and the patter the gravel was a little weird.

与该栗子橡子下降阵雨, 并急促的砾石是一点都不奇怪.

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Raindrops are starting to patter.

就在这时,噼噼啪啪的雨点落了下来.

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She's not particularly interested in having children, but her husband longs for the patter of tiny feet.

她并不特别想要孩子, 可是她的丈夫巴不得早点有个小宝宝.

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