pattering

英 [ˈpætərɪŋ]

美 [ˈpætərɪŋ]

v.  发出轻快的拍打声; 轻盈地走
patter的现在分词

复数：patterings　

柯林斯词典

• VERB 嗒嗒作响；嗒嗒地拍
  If somethingpatterson a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds.
  1. Rain pattered gently outside, dripping on to the roof from the pines.
     外面，松树上的雨水滴落在屋顶上，嗒嗒作响。
• N-SING 急促的轻拍声；嗒嗒声
  Apatteris a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds.
  1. ...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.
     暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声
• N-SING （通常以娱乐、推销或劝说为目的的）顺口溜，伶俐话，连珠炮似的叫卖语
  Someone'spatteris a series of things that they say quickly and easily, usually in order to entertain people or to persuade them to buy or do something.
  1. There's no doubt women found him charming. It must have been his patter because he's certainly not at all good-looking...
     女人们无疑会觉得他很迷人。这肯定是因为他的顺口溜，因为他长得一点儿都不好看。
  2. Fran began her automatic patter about how Jon had been unavoidably detained.
     弗兰开始不由自主地唠叨起乔恩是怎样无可避免地被扣留的。

双语例句

• "Tom, is that you pattering around downstairs?"
  “汤姆，是不是你在楼下嗒嗒地四处跑动？”
• The reel was taken off and the house was silent except for the steady pattering of the rain on the iron roof.
  唱片取下了，整栋房子沉寂了。只有落在铁皮屋顶上的雨声淅淅沥沥，下个不停。
• It was a wet night; and the melancholy rain fell pattering and dropping with a weary sound.
  这是个雨夜；令人伤感的雨以一种使人厌倦的声音急速地、嗒嗒地下着。
• Said the voice. Fetch me my gloves this moment! Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
  那个声音喊道，赶快给我拿手套，然后一连串小脚步声步上楼梯了。
• I heard feet pattering across the floor.
  我听到从地板上拍拍跑过去的脚步声。
• To listen to the falling rain, pattering on the grounds
  倾听雨声，滴答降落大地
• Babbitt wrung Paul's hands, and waited in the office till Maxwell came pattering out.
  巴比特使劲握握保罗的手，在办公室里等着，直到马克斯韦尔匆匆出来。
• A few big raindrops fell pattering upon the leaves.
  几滴大雨点嗒嗒地打在树叶上。
• We reached a price satisfactory to both of us, and struck hands on it. I heard feet pattering across the floor.
  我们在价格方面达成了双方都满意的协议，于是拍手成交。我听到从地板上拍拍跑过去的脚步声。
• So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea.
  那孩子便象鸟儿般地飞了开去，她那双赤裸着的白白的小脚丫，一路拍着水在潮湿的海边跑着。