chattering n. 振动(振荡,自激振动现象,跳跃现象)
a. 颤振的
- Give over, can't you? I can't work with you chattering away like that.
到此为止吧,行吗?你这样聊下去我就没法工作了。 - Do stop chattering on about the weather when I'm trying to read.
别再没完没了地唠叨天气了, 我要看书了.
chattering[ noun ]- the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine
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- the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)
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Chatter \Chat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Chattered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Chattering}.] [Of imitative origin. Cf. {Chat}, v. i.
{Chitter}.]
1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are
inarticulate and indistinct.
The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters.
--Wordsworth.
2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to
jabber; to prate.
To tame a shrew, and charm her chattering tongue.
--Shak.
3. To make a noise by rapid collisions.
With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright.
--Dryden.
Chattering \Chat"ter*ing\, n.
The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making
inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the
collision of the teeth; chatter.
- The chattering classes may scoff, but the Tory faithful are not alone in caring about crime, about standards in schools and about the level of their taxes. The Euro-sceptic mood in 10 Downing Street has its roots in the same tactical manoeuvring.
- TIGER STADIUM The chattering tour group falls silent upon entering the hallowed shrine at Trumbull and Michigan avenues, a spot where professional baseball has been played in one park or another since 1896.
- Outside is the timeless small-town summer symphony of chattering children, barking dogs and hissing lawn sprinklers, punctuated by slamming screen doors.