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To prattle is to talk on and on about small, silly, or things — a stream of little words. About babies and small children it can sound fairly warm: the child prattles, meaning the talk is not grown-up yet. About adults it is less kind: it suggests the talk is empty and goes on too long. There is also a noun: prattle is that kind of talk. It is a little literary, but more alive than ; you still see it in books and in slightly teasing speech. Not a stiff classroom word, and not slang.
嘰嘰喳喳說個不停；也指小孩還說不清楚時的牙牙學語。說大人時帶點嫌話多、沒重點。
組成prate + -le. The old ending -le means the action keeps happening, over and over.
同家族的字
- pratethe older, sharper verb this was built from
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。
prattleverb/ˈpɹætəl/
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To speak incessantly and in an inconsequential or childish manner; to babble.
- And as E. Rushmore Coglan prattled of this little planet I thought with glee of a great almost-cosmopolite who wrote for the whole world and dedicated himself to Bombay.
- I looked across at Anna, and I noticed that her eyes had grown strangely blank, without expression. I felt instinctively that the subject brought up by Victor was one she would not have chosen. Victor, insensitive to this, went prattling on.
prattlenoun/ˈpɹætəl/
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Silly, childish talk; babble.
- Mere prattle without practice is all his soldiership.
- [...] if you fatigue people by haying them always present, if you encourage or repeat their prattle and their sports; [...]
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。