She blathers about goodness and beauty and her own genius. 她胡吹什么德行、美貌和自己的天才。
Speak up old man! I am busy and have things to do besides listening to you blather! 快点老头!我除了听你说废话之外还有好多事情要忙着去做呢!
When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. 当我们胡扯琐碎的事情时,我们自己就变得琐碎,因为我们的注意力甘于琐碎。
Blather \Blath"er\ (bl[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. {Blathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blathering}.] [Written also {blether}.] [Icel. bla[eth]ra. Cf. {Blatherskite}.] To talk foolishly, or nonsensically, or concerning matters of no consequence. --G. Eliot.
Blather \Blath"er\, n. [Written also {blether}.] Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. --Hall Caine. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The government is unable to do very much, beyond blather.
There were pre-game interviews with coaches and players made unusual only by the fact that the contests they were previewing would exist just on celluloid, halftime highlight shows and the usual telecaster blather.
The blather of right-wing quackery is dangerous.
Most Americans, we suspect, will recognize these forebodings as blather of a familiar sort.