superfluous words,nonsense,rubbish,a pile of shit,bunk ;
[例句] 这都是废话和迷信,不是真的. It's all rubbish and superstition, and there's nothing in it.
[例句] 我一辈子还从没听到过这样一堆废话。 I've never heard such a load of tripe in all my life.
brag,boast,talk big,draw the long bow,malarkey ;
[例句] 他老爱说大话,就仿佛他是一位要人似的. He likes to talk big as though he was an important person.
[例句] 他们一味说大话. They indulge in tall talk.
children's stories,fairy tales,fairy tale ;
[例句] 她深深爱着他:这是个童话般的浪漫故事。 She loved him so much: it was a fairytale romance.
[例句] 在这个卡通童话里王子变成了一只青蛙。 A prince turns into a frog in this cartoon fairytale.
untruth,lie,flapdoodle ;
[例句] 要是她那么说的, 她就是说了个大瞎话. If she said that, she was telling a real whopper.
[例句] 我痛痛快快骂这些笨家伙一顿,因为他们听信了那套瞎话. I scolded the stupid fellows well for listening to that tale.
subject for ridicule,handle ;
[例句] 别让你的行为成为人家说三道四的话柄. Don't let your conduct give any handle for gossip.
[例句] 他成了村中的话柄. She became the byword of the village.
interpose ,chip in,digression,episode,chime in ;
[例句] “我们一定可以做点儿什么吧?”佩林突然插话道。 "Surely there's something we can do?" interjected Palin.
[例句] 克莱门茨不及回答他就插话了。 He chipped in before Clements could answer.
argot,cant,double talk,malicious words,jive ;
[例句] 他懂盗贼的黑话. He knows thieves'cant.
[例句] 他懂盗贼的黑话。 He knows thieves' argot.
ravings,wild talk,eyewash,fudge ;
[例句] “不是喝醉了就是在 说 胡话.”大夫说. 'Drunk or raving,'said he.
[例句] 你讲的全是胡话! You are talking absolute rot!
witty remark,witticism,wisecrack,(讽刺的话) sarcastic remark,a play upon words ;
[例句] 他迄今为止一直不为我说的俏皮话所动。 He had thus far succeeded in fending off my conversational sallies.
[例句] 他出口就是俏皮话,说话下流不带脏字。 He is a master of the pun and the double entendre.
lie,deceptive remark,nonsense,outright lies ;
[例句] 全都是些部长们常说的骗人鬼话和少不了的奉承恭维。 There was all the usual humbug and obligatory compliments from ministers.
[例句] 别对我讲那些鬼话! Don't give me that baloney!
vulgar language,obscence language,coarse language,four-letter word,vulgarity ;
[例句] 电视公司往往会在审查故事片时删去其中的粗话。 Television companies tend to censor bad language in feature films.
[例句] 她骂人的那些粗话让工人们大吃一惊。 The coarseness of her cursing amazed the workmen.
lie,falsehood,story,taradiddle,tarradiddle ;
phone,ring up,call (up),give sb. a call [ring],give someone a ring ;
[例句] 他打电话给劳拉看她是不是好些了。 He'd phoned Laura to see if she was better.
[例句] 我因为没给他打电话,被狠狠训斥了一顿。 I got a severe telling off for not phoning him.
mandarin ;
[例句] 那儿的普通话听起来犹如带锯割镀锌筒一样. Common speech there sounds like a band saw cutting galvanized tin.
[例句] 我会讲上海话,普通话. I speak the Shanghai dialect and the Mandarin.
make idle talk,talk behind sb.'s back,talk ;
[例句] 说闲话的人真是旧脑筋! The gossipers really are a bunch of old fogies!
[例句] 说闲话的人都是些老脑筋. Those making the idle talk are all old fogies.
make a fool of oneself,make a stupid mistake,make a foolish figure ;
[例句] 不懂装懂就会闹笑话. If you pretend to know what you don't know , you'll only make a fool of yourself.
[例句] 辛楣 自信 是有道德的君子,断不闹笑话. He considered himself much too high - minded ever to get himself involved in a scandal.
foolish words,rubbish,nonsense,yawp ;
[例句] 我一生中从未听到过这样的蠢话. I have never heard such silly drivel in all my life.
[例句] 我听烦了你的蠢话. I'm tired of your stupid remarks.
malign,missay,speak ill of;动 badmouth ;
[例句] 说好话如口吐莲花, 说坏话如口吐毒蛇. Kind words are like pure lotus, mean words are like poisonous snakes.
[例句] 说坏话的人和做坏事的人,区别仅在于机会. An evil speaker differs from an evil - doer only in opportunity.
civilities,formulae,holiday words,polite formula ;
[例句] 我言不由衷地说了一些表示同情的客套话。 I mouthed some sympathetic platitudes.
[例句] 她一句客套话都没讲就开始热切地说起来. She began speaking intensely, without preliminaries.
talk in one's dream,talk nonsense,talk in sleep,somniloquence,somniloquy ;
[例句] 昨晚我听见你说梦话. I heard you talk in your sleep last night.
[例句] 他在说梦话而且在床上不安地辗转反侧着. He was talking in his sleep and moving uneasily on the bed.