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Blithering is almost never used on its own. You will hear it in front of idiot: a blithering idiot — someone who has done something thoroughly stupid. For most speakers it is no longer really about talking; it is just a strong, slightly old-fashioned, mostly British . It is informal and rude if you aim it at a real person. Older speakers and comedy still use it; many younger people barely say it. It does not belong in careful school writing. You might also see blithering as a verb form, “talking on with little sense,” but the insult is the use students actually meet.
愚蠢透頂的(幾乎只出現在 blithering idiot;不要譯成「喋喋不休」)
組成From blither (to talk nonsense) + -ing. In the insult, the “talking” meaning has mostly faded; what is left is “completely (stupid).”
同家族的字
- blatherto talk on and on with little sense; blither is a variant of this older verb
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
blitheringadj
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Talking incoherently; jabbering.
- This was just what he had been afraid of. These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.
blitheringnoun
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Incoherent or foolish talk.
- the blitherings of a madman
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。