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chat.terH5tFAt7E5, $5tFAt7Lv [I](of people) to talk continuously and eagerly, or (fig.) (of animals or machines) to make quick repeated noises喋喋不休，饶舌She spent the morning chattering away to her friends.她把上午花在和朋友喋喋不休谈话上。It really irritates me the way he chatters on about nothing all the time.他这样总是喋喋不休地讲空话，真让我恼怒。(fig.) The gun shot made the monkeys chatter in alarm.枪声使猴子们受了惊，吱吱乱叫。(fig.) The noise of old-fashioned computer printers chattering away gave her a headache.旧式计算机的打印机发出的吱吱噪声让她头痛。If your teeth chatter, they knock together repeatedly because you are very cold or frightened.（冷得或害怕得）牙齿打战I could hardly talk, my teeth were chattering so much.我几乎不能说话，我的牙齿打战得厉害。(Br infml disapproving) The chattering classes are well-educated middle class people who enjoy discussing political, cultural and social matters and who are willing to express an opinion about almost any subject.闲聊阶层（就各种问题展开讨论的受过教育的中产阶级）She hates the snobbery of the chattering classes.她憎恨闲聊阶层的势利。The prevailing view among the chattering classes is that the country has returned to its depressingly familiar path of post-war decline.闲聊阶层的普遍观点是国家已经回到了战后衰落那条令人沮丧的老路上去了。
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