(亦作blether或blither)
no obj.
- talk long-windedly without making very much sense啰唆地说, 滔滔不绝地胡扯:
she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death.
她开始啰里啰唆地谈起了灵性和来生
as noun blathering now stop your blathering and get back to work.别再胡扯, 快回去干活。
词源
late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra 'talk nonsense', from blathr 'nonsense'.