chatter是一个雅思常考词汇,这个词的常用解释为vi. &n. 喋喋不休,这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢,今天小编就带您了解一下。
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- 'Superbe!Charmant!exclaimed the ladies; for they all used to chatter French, each one worse than her neighbor.
-- said he, involuntarily imitating the chatter of the Parrot, and at the same moment he was again a copying-clerk; but he was sitting in the middle of the table.
-- It was just as if the people within were under a charm, and had fallen into a trance till they came out again into the street; for then oh, then they could chatter enough.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- he thought, as he listened to the celebrated doctor's chatter about his daughter's symptoms.
-- There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
-- Annushka was obviously much pleased at that lady's arrival, and began to chatter away without a pause.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- In Mohalis she was flustered by the chatter of the students; she longed for her home-town, for the church sociables and the meetings of the women's club--they were studying Education this year and she hated to lose all the information about university ways.
-- And he'll learn to chatter Wop and French and everything like a regular native, and his dad and mother'll be so proud!Oh, we'll be a fierce pair of old birds!We never did have any more morals 'n a rabbit, either of us, and probably when we're seventy we'll sit out on the doorstep and smoke pipes and snicker at all the respectable people going by, and tell each other scandalous stories about 'em till they want to take a shot at us, and our boy--he'll wear a plug hat and have a chauffeur--he won't dare to recognize us!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- It's because I chatter that I do nothing.
-- Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing.
-- I've learned to chatter this last month, lying for days together in my den thinking 芒聙娄 of Jack the Giant-killer.
-- Zossimov interrupted Nas-tasya's chatter with marked displeasure.
-- At the word 'madman,' carelessly dropped by Zossimov in his chatter on his favourite subject, everyone frowned.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- At the same time, nobody could wonder if Mr. Elton should have aspired Miss Woodhouse lets me chatter on, so good-humouredly.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- Nothing disturbed the stillness of the cottage save the chatter of a knot of sparrows on the eaves; one might fancy scandal and rumour to be no less the staple topic of these little coteries on roofs than of those under them.
-- So the chatter was all on her side.
-- "You'll chatter with him doubtless about me.
-- A coarse-throated chatter was the first sound.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- For half an hour, the girls would chatter and laugh, and then servants would pull theshutters and in the warm half-gloom the talk would die to whispers and finally expire in silence broken only by softregular breathing.
-- Widows could never chatter vivaciously or laugh aloud.
-- But they treated her deferentially, as if she were old and finished,and their constant chatter of dances and beaux made her both envious of their pleasures and resentful that herwidowhood barred her from such activities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- He experienced no other crosses on the way, than those which originated in the perverse behaviour of the two paupers, who persisted in shivering, and complaining of the cold, in a manner which, Mr. Bumble declared, caused his teeth to chatter in his head, and made him feel quite uncomfortable; although he had a great-coat on.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里,有这样的句子出现:
-- There she sat listening to the chatter and comment about her.
-- It was as if idle chatter deadened the sense of misery.
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