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drivel

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++driv·el /ˈdrɪvəl/ noun [uncountable]  STUPID/NOT SENSIBLEsomething that is said or written that is silly or does not mean anything 废话,蠢话,无聊话 Don’t talk such drivel! 别胡说八道!drivel verb [intransitive]
Examples from the Corpus
drivelSpare us the cliched drivel of how spring training mirrors life's new beginnings.I don't know which is worse - her drivel or you being daft enough to listen to it!Most of these essays are just full of drivel.Typing five or six thousand words of drivel every day was a strange way to keep sane.Some of it is amusing, some of it pretentious drivel.The talk was lively and, compared to Morrison's drivel, refreshingly rational.She sat impatiently listening to the teacher's drivel about the fault in the program he was about to network.Trust me when I say you should have nothing to do with such drivel - make like a tree and leave it.Why bother with this drivel my teacher asks us to do?
Origin drivel Old English dreflian to let liquid flow from the mouth
driv·el nounChineseSyllable
silly is said something written Corpus that is or that


drivel
drivel /ˈdrɪvəl/ noun [uncountable]
 Language: Old English
 Origin: dreflian 'to let liquid flow from the mouth'
something that is said or written that is silly or does not mean anything:
    Don’t talk such drivel!
—drivel verb [intransitive]


drivelBrE /ˈdrɪvl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdrɪvl/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] (informal, disapproving) silly nonsense 蠢话;傻话;废话How can you watch that drivel on TV? 你怎么能看电视上那种胡说八道的东西?🔊🔊
drivelBrE /ˈdrɪvl/ 🔊NAmE /ˈdrɪvl/ 🔊 verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they drivel BrE /ˈdrɪvl/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvl/ 🔊present simple - he / she / it drivels BrE /ˈdrɪvlz/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvlz/ 🔊past simple drivelled BrE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊past participle drivelled BrE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊past simple (US) driveled BrE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊past participle (US) driveled BrE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvld/ 🔊 -ing form drivelling BrE /ˈdrɪvlɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvlɪŋ/ 🔊 -ing form (US) driveling BrE /ˈdrɪvlɪŋ/ 🔊 NAmE /ˈdrɪvlɪŋ/ 🔊 [intransitive] ~ (on) (about sth) (usually used in the progressive tenses 通常用于进行时) to keep talking about silly or unimportant things 老是说傻话;喋喋不休地说无聊话