Chatter

(noun.) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys).

(noun.) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine.

(verb.) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

(verb.) make noise as if chattering away; 'The magpies were chattering in the trees'.

(verb.) cut unevenly with a chattering tool.

(verb.) click repeatedly or uncontrollably; 'Chattering teeth'.

塞西莉整理

• This occurring many times in rapid succession is what causes the teeth to chatter. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Your way, you little chatter-box? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He might have been the brass statue which Albertus Magnus is said to have animated just so far as to make it chatter, and move, and be his servant. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Shirley, you chatter so, I can't fasten you. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I suppose so,' returned Bella; 'I look in the glass often enough, and I chatter like a Magpie. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The senseless chatter of the young men at mess was more than ever jarring. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• At the same time, nobody could wonder if Mr. Elton should have aspiredMiss Woodhouse lets me chatter on, so good-humouredly. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• As soon as his chattering teeth would let him speak, he smiled vacantly, and said he thought it must have been the Cramp. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Laughing and chattering like the idiot I was fast becoming I fell upon his prostrate form my fingers feeling for his dead throat. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Peepy had scaled his crib, and crept down in his bed-gown and cap, and was so cold that his teeth were chattering as if he had cut them all. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Whatever is Christian Cantle's teeth a-chattering for? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• An if I disturb you with my clicketten,' she meant her chattering, 'tell me so, Dan'l, and I won't. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Chattering on in this way, he led me back to the vestry. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• But they ignored him, as, chattering without heed, they set to mount the second flight. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She bustled, she chattered, she turned and twisted, and smiled upon one, and smirked on another, all in full view of the jealous opera-glass opposite. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• He chattered on, with something of the smooth gossiping fluency of former times. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Though her teeth chattered in her head from wet and cold, Mrs. Sparsit exulted hugely. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Raw and chill was the winter morning: my teeth chattered as I hastened down the drive. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• And then you chattered, and she told you---- It was not at curling-hair time, so you are not as wise as you think; and, besides, she didn't tell me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• As I passed him, his teeth loudly chattered in his head, and with every mark of extreme humiliation, he prostrated himself in the dust. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Meg danced and flirted, chattered and giggled, as the other girls did. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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