gabber
noun [ C ] uk/ˈɡæb.ər/ us/ˈɡæb.ɚ/
唠叨的人,没完没了说话的人
someone who talks continuously and eagerly, especially about things that are not important
Claire is a gabber who never stops talking. 克莱尔是个唠叨的人,说起话来喋喋不休。
People who use public transport can bank on hearing mobile phone gabbers discuss intimate details of their lives. 乘坐公共交通的人肯定可以听到没完没了讲手机的人讨论自己生活中的私密细节。
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- He says he's a doer, not a gabber.
- Let's see how these two professional gabbers talk their way through our stupid questions.
- Have you ever been at a restaurant not far from a thoughtless gabber who is acting as if he were in a private phone booth?
gabber
verb [ I ] uk/ˈɡæb.ər/ us/ˈɡæb.ɚ/
喋喋不休,没完没了地说话
to talk continuously and eagerly, especially about things that are not important
As we passed them they would gabber and grin at us. 当我们经过他们身边时,他们总是会对着我们唠叨,还咧着嘴笑。
He gabbered on until he ran out of things to say. 他喋喋不休地说个不停,直到实在没有什么可说的了。
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- She gabbered incessantly, not caring if I replied or not.
- A crowd of young people stood around gabbering in Spanish.
- They started gabbering about "reverse polarities" or something.