prate
/preyt/US // preɪt //UK // (preɪt) //
侈谈,侈靡,侈靡不振,侈奢
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Definitions
v.无主动词 verb
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prat·ed, prat·ing.
- : to talk excessively and pointlessly; babble: They prated on until I was ready to scream.
v.有主动词 verb
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prat·ed, prat·ing.
- : to utter in empty or foolish talk: to prate absurdities with the greatest seriousness.
n.名词 noun
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- : act of prating.
- : empty or foolish talk.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Golden Age-of-TV evangelists prate on about which glorified soap operas are most deserving of our rapt attention.
But I am transgressing the rule I laid down for myself in the outset of these stories—not to prate much about my own pets.
After that let him who will prate of the feeling of identity and the consciousness of self.
Neither shalt thou prate even to thy own heart of 'those secrets known to all.'
Uds life, Ill stick my knife in your guts an you prate to me so!
My fanaticism is, that I insist on the American people abolishing Slavery, or ceasing to prate of the rights of man.
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