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A garrulous person talks a lot — not just , but on and on, with stories, details and asides, until it is hard to get a word in. The word usually carries a small sigh: too many words, and they do not always go somewhere useful. It is rather and a little ; you are more likely to meet it in a novel or a review than across a night-market table, where people just say someone is talkative, , or never stops talking. Though actually, talkative can still sound like a compliment, and garrulous almost never does: it names the overflow, not the friendliness.
喋喋不休的、話特別多的(帶點不耐煩,不是在誇「健談」)
組成From Latin garrulus (“talkative”) plus English -ous. The Latin adjective comes from the verb garriō, “to chatter.”
同家族的字
- garrulouslythe adverb: in a garrulous way
- garrulousnessthe noun: the habit of talking too much
原始詞典資料2 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。
garrulousadj/ˈɡæɹ.ʊ.ləs/
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Excessively or tiresomely talkative.
- She lingered for a few moments, and was garrulous over some detail of the household.
- Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.
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entertainmentlifestyleliteratureExcessively wordy and rambling.
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。