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    If you maunder, you talk for a long time in a loose, dull way — often complaining — without really arriving at a point. The talk wanders, and listeners get tired waiting for it to land. The word lives more in books and careful writing than in everyday speech; in ordinary talk people usually say go on and on, ramble, or complain. You maunder on about a job, the neighbours, the government. It is not a rude word, but it is not a kind one either: it says the speaker is wasting time. Though actually, the same verb can also mean to walk about with no clear aim, as if your feet were doing what your voice does when you maunder. Both pictures share that slow, unfocused movement.

    碎碎念、絮絮叨叨(說了又說,常帶點抱怨)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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組成From an older verb maund, “to beg”. The idea moved from asking again and again to talking on and on.

原始詞典資料5 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。

Maundername

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    A surname.

maunderverb/ˈmɔːndə/

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    To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.

    • He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.
    • "Not so fast, Lady Cecilia; not yet;" and now Louisa went on with a medical maundering. "As to low spirits, my dear Cecilia, I must say I agree with Sir Sib Pennyfeather, who tells me it is not mere common low spirits […]"
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    To wander or walk aimlessly.

    • [Deacon Mushrat to Pogo:] The Machiavellian barratry of a pettifogging public has maundered into do-nothingism.
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    obsoleteTo beg; to whine like a beggar.

maundernoun/ˈmɔːndə/

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    obsoleteA beggar.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。