drivel

英 [ˈdrɪvl]

美 [ˈdrɪvl]

n.  蠢话; 傻话; 废话
v.  老是说傻话; 喋喋不休地说无聊话

现在分词：drivelling　过去式：drivelled　第三人称单数：drivels　过去分词：drivelled　

GRE

BNC.34571 / COCA.27601

牛津词典

noun

• 蠢话；傻话；废话
  silly nonsense
  1. How can you watch that drivel on TV?
     你怎么能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西？

verb

• 老是说傻话；喋喋不休地说无聊话
  to keep talking about silly or unimportant things

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 蠢话;废话
  If you describe something that is written or said asdrivel, you are critical of it because you think it is very silly.
  1. What absolute drivel!
     一派胡言！
  2. She is still writing mindless drivel.
     她还在写些没头没脑的东西。

英英释义

noun

• saliva spilling from the mouth
  Synonym:drooldribbleslobber
• a worthless message
  Synonym:garbage

verb

• let saliva drivel from the mouth
  1. The baby drooled
  Synonym:droolslabberslaverslobberdribble

双语例句

• She is still writing mindless drivel.
  她还在写些没头没脑的东西。
• But worst of all, the fact that you are even considering even if only ironically complying with something so brainless as an outcome-based dress code makes me fear it might be time for you to go somewhere that takes drivel less seriously.
  但最糟糕的是，你甚至正在考虑即便只是出于讽刺遵守一种愚蠢到要求基于结果的着装规定，这让我担心，或许你应该换一个对待职场废话不那么认真的东家了。
• But often once you buy a book you feel to read it, even if it is drivel.
  但是你可能经常会买回来一本你发现并不喜欢的书。
• Employees are likely to laugh their tails off at any boss who cites this drivel as inspiration.
  老板要把这一派胡言奉为灵感，雇员可能会笑掉大牙。
• Catherine, before you buy into this drivel, ask yourself why does China have a trade surplus with the US, and why the US has trouble paying its debt, i.e raising the debt ceiling?
  凯瑟琳，在你说出这些胡言乱语之前，问问自己，为什么中国对美国有一个贸易顺差，以及我们为什么支付债务困难，提高债务上限？
• They pandered& first to the "general public" and then to "the youth demo," with all kinds of terrible, marketing-department-inspired drivel.
  报纸开始迎合，首先是迎合“公众”，然后是迎合“年轻人”，在营销部门的激励下，它们几乎尝试了各种各样可怕的愚蠢行为。
• Which is just the sort of meaningless drivel that will make this new economic power fit right in with the business supremos of the Anglo-Saxon world.
  凭着这类毫无意义的废话，这个新兴经济大国与盎格鲁撒克逊世界的商业巨擘们将会很合得来。
• But there is too little gold and too much drivel.
  但是宝贵的东西太少，胡言乱语太多。
• How can you watch that drivel on TV?
  你怎麽能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西？
• Yet this was not how commentators following the 90 minutes of drivel chose to see the matter.
  然而，听了90分钟废话的评论人士们可并不这么看问题。