tittle-tattle

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈtɪt.əlˌtæt.əl]
• 美式音标 [ˈtɪt̬.əlˌtæt̬.əl]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 杂谈；闲聊
• vi. 漫谈；闲聊
• vt. 闲谈；漫谈

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• But does tittle-tattle really help attract more friends?
  但是这些闲聊真的能帮助吸引更多的朋友吗？
• In lesser hands Ms Nasar’s story might have degenerated into a series of pen portraits: tittle-tattle for the middlebrow.
  要是写书的人水平差一点，纳萨尔女士的故事可能会退化为一系列人物特写：普通人闲聊的谈资。
• Inevitably, he was assumed to be referring to the scandal, and an impression was left that Benedict thought accusations of paedophilia were mere tittle-tattle.
  不可避免的会让人联想到他指的是这次丑闻并给人留下这样一个印象即本尼迪克特认为恋童癖的控告只不过是闲聊罢了。

权威例句

• Most of all, he deplores what he sees as its passion for trivia and tittle-tattle.
  ECONOMIST: Bagehot: In a spin The
• What happens if the rumoured details of Mr Clinton's misbehaviour in that same Oval Office become common knowledge rather than Internet tittle-tattle?
  ECONOMIST: The president’s disappearing friends

词组短语

短语

• coffee tittle -tattle 啡言啡语
• Goldfish Tittle -tattle 金鱼杂谈
• Tittle -Tattle in Singapore 狮城水库
• tittle -tattle for the middlebrow 知识界平庸人物

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• talk about other people's lives that is usually unkind, disapproving, or not true

柯林斯英英字典

• If you refer to something that a group of people talk about as tittle-tattle, you mean that you disapprove of it because it is not important, and there is no real evidence that it is true.