blather

英语

词源 1

源自中古英語 bletheren、bloderen，源自古諾爾斯語 blaðra (“说胡话”)。与低地蘇格蘭語 blether、bladder、bledder (“胡扯”)，德語方言bladdern (“说胡话”)、挪威語 bladra (“含糊不清地说”)、冰島語 blaðra (“说废话”)同源。

其他形式

• blether (英国北部、苏格兰、爱尔兰北部)

发音

• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /blæðə(ɹ)/

• （英国）音频：

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• 韻部：-æðə(ɹ)

动词

blather (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 blathers，現在分詞 blathering，一般過去時及過去分詞 blathered)

1. (不及物，貶義) 喋喋不休地胡扯
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   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, 2014, section 5:^[1]

     On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

2. (及物，貶義) 胡说道，乱讲说
   • 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, Act I, scene i, page 31:^[2]

     Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!

   • 1974, Robert Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, part 3, page 214:^[3]

     […] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.

衍生词汇

• blatherer
• blatherskate
• blatherskite
• blathersome
• blathery

 

名词

blather (不可數)

1. (貶義) 胡话，蠢话
   • 1897, G. A. Henty, With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, p. 16,^[4]

     That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

   • 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 23, p. 265,^[5]

     Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

   • 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Part 5, p. 280,^[6]

     With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

近义词

• 参见Thesaurus:chatter

词源 2

名词

blather (複數 blathers)

1. bladder的棄用形式。
   • 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,^[7]

     […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe

     A blather, where the windes imboweld were,

异序词

• Barthel, Halbert, halbert