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单词 drivel
释义
driveldriv‧el /ˈdrɪvəl/ noun [uncountable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINdrivel
Origin:
Old English dreflian ‘to let liquid flow from the mouth’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Most of these essays are just full of drivel.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • I don't know which is worse - her drivel or you being daft enough to listen to it!
  • She sat impatiently listening to the teacher's drivel about the fault in the program he was about to network.
  • Some of it is amusing, some of it pretentious drivel.
  • Spare us the cliched drivel of how spring training mirrors life's new beginnings.
  • The talk was lively and, compared to Morrison's drivel, refreshingly rational.
  • Trust me when I say you should have nothing to do with such drivel - make like a tree and leave it.
  • Typing five or six thousand words of drivel every day was a strange way to keep sane.
  • Why bother with this drivel my teacher asks us to do?
something that is said or written that is silly or does not mean anything:  Don’t talk such drivel!drivel verb [intransitive]
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