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

• In any case, employees generally don't bother to read the management drivel that lands in their in-boxes, and when they do they hardly ever take it seriously.
  不管怎样，员工们一般不会费心去查阅收件箱里管理层的那些鬼话，即使看了也从不会当真。
• This is utter rot. Some of the very best salesmen talk the most awful drivel and have emerged from school without any flair for grammar.
  一些最优秀的销售人员说着最糟糕的傻话，他们从学校毕业时没掌握任何语法。
• You do talk drivel sometimes!
  你有时候还真会说傻话！
• The most usual sort of drivel is intermittent, comes from someone distant, usually in HR, and is routinely ignored by all.
  最常见的那种废话是间歇性出现的，来自远处的某个人（通常在人力资源部门），而且通常被所有人忽略。
• 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。
• It is certainly surprising that such a highly reputable magazine should drivel about the matter.
  声誉很高的杂志竟然对此事胡言一派，确实令人诧异。
• Don't talk such drivel!
  不要讲这么无聊的话！
• 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。
• The question is whether one should work for a company that spouts cretinous drivel.
  问题的实质是，一个人是否应该为一家滔滔不绝说废话的公司工作。
• The promotional video for the event shows MS Shriver talking a blue streak of drivel.
  在该活动的宣传视频中，施莱弗女士废话连篇。