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

• 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。
• You do talk drivel sometimes!
  你有时候还真会说傻话！
• Don't talk such drivel!
  不要讲这么无聊的话！
• You and the lunatic fringe that listen to this drivel have ruined the country, and subverted conservatism into the ideology of hate.
  你和那些听这些胡言乱语的极端分子简直毁了这个国家，愚蠢地把保守主义颠覆成了怨恨！
• You're going to have to rewrite this essay-at the moment, it's just drivel.
  你得重写这篇文章按现在的情形看，它根本就是言之无物。
• Most of what he said was absolute drivel.
  他说的大多数话都是胡言乱语。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 whether you should consider leaving depends on four things: the frequency of the drivel; your proximity to it; how seriously it is taken by others and, most crucially, whether you have to pretend to take it seriously yourself.
  然而，是否应该考虑离开取决于四个方面：废话出现的频率；你与它的距离：其他同事对待它的认真程度，最重要的是，你自己是否必须假装认真对待它。