But alas! We do like cowbirds and cuckoos, which lay their eggs in nests which other birds have built, and cheer no traveler with their chattering and unmusical notes.

可是，唉！我们不喜欢燕八哥和杜鹃，它们跑到别个鸟禽所筑造的巢中去下蛋，那叽叽喳喳的不协和乐音并不能使行路经过的人听了快乐。

The Gryffindor first years followed Percy through the chattering crowds, out of the Great Hall, and up the marble staircase.

格兰芬多的一级新生跟着珀西，穿过嘈杂的人群，走出餐厅，登上大理石楼梯。

Oh, hanging was too good for him! Thank God, he couldn't see her now, with her clothes soaking wet and her hair straggling and her teeth chattering.

啊，绞刑还太便宜了他呢！感谢上帝，他现在已经看不见她，看不见她浑身湿透、披头散发、牙关打颤的模样！她一定显得十分狼狈，而他见了准会哈哈大笑的！

The chattering ceases, and the forest is still.

叽叽喳喳的音逐渐消失，森林一片寂静。

The lower Jack sank, the louder the noise: the Things on the floor were chattering and clattering and clinking and rustling, until the sound was almost deafening.

杰克越往下沉，音就越大，地板上的东西发出一系列的音——咯咯、、叮当叮当、沙拉沙拉。音几乎震耳欲聋。

The Farmer's Almanac says this winter will be colder than normal from the Continental Divide through the Appalachians and that the Midwest, the Northeast and the Southeast can expect teeth chattering temperatures starting in mid-February.

《农民鉴》称这个冬天将比往更寒冷，从大陆的分水岭阿巴拉契亚山脉开始，中西部、东北部和东南部地区将从二中旬开始迎来刺骨的温度。

Why don't we have these kind of chattering in our mind?

为什么我们脑袋里很少这种积极的音?

Their uniform was khaki. All their mouths hung open. Squealing and chattering they entered.

他们穿着叽制服，耷拉着嘴唇，尖叫着唧喳着进来了。

" Come on, " said Ron, whose teeth seemed to be chattering.

“走吧。”罗恩说，牙齿好像在打战。

Suddenly an excited chattering told him that something was happening, and he stood very still.

突然，他听到了一阵欢快的叽喳，他马上就意识到有事情要发生，他静静地站在那儿一动不动。

I took a book or magazine on these walks but rarely opened it, no matter how bored I felt looking at the same old trees and the same old chattering, ill-natured jays and squirrels.

我散步的时候总是带上一本书或是杂志，却很少打开来看，虽然每次看到同样的树木，同样唧唧喳喳坏脾气的鸟和松鼠确实让我觉得枯燥乏味。

They were reunited four years later, but the intervening time left a conspicuous mark: the parrot had lost its British accent and was instead chattering away in Spanish.

四后，他们又团聚了，但他们分离的时间给鹦鹉留下了明显的痕迹，这只鹦鹉失去了它的英国口音，反而会说西班牙语了。

Partridges and woodpeckers were booming and knocking in the forest. Squirrels were chattering, birds singing, and overhead honked the wild-fowl driving up from the south in cunning wedges that split the air.

鹧鸪和啄木鸟在森林里咕咕地叫、笃笃地敲，松鼠在唧唧喳喳，小鸟在愉快地唱歌，来自南方的大雁排成精巧的队形划破长空、从头顶呱呱地飞过。

At twelve o'clock you drove up, and stayed smoking cigarettes and chattering till 1: 30, when I had to take you out to luncheon at the Cafe Royal or the Berkeley.

十二点你就驾着车来了，呆着抽烟聊天一直到一点半，到那时我只好带你去皇家咖啡座或伯莱克用午餐。

" You've d-done it! " said Harry through chattering teeth, but before the words had left his lips the outline had gone, leaving the rock as bare and solid as ever.

“你成——成功了！”哈利说，他的牙齿在嘚嘚地打着战，但他的话音未落，那道轮廓就不见了，岩石还跟刚才一样坚硬厚实，上面什么也没有。

Smoke from the engine drifted over the heads of the chattering crowd, while cats of every color wound here and there between their legs .

蒸汽机车的浓烟在嘁嘁喳喳的人群上空缭绕，各种花色的猫咪在人们脚下穿来穿去。

If you were going through the forest, you would hear such a noise and chattering in the boughs over your head, that you would wonder what was the matter.

当你在森林中穿行的时候，你就会听到头顶的树枝上传来的叽叽喳喳的音，你就会想这是怎么回事。

I can't stand much more of this, Ron muttered, his teeth chattering, as the orchestra ground back into action and the ghosts swept back onto the dance floor.

我再也受不住了。罗恩嘟囔说，他的牙齿地打战。这时乐队又呀呀地开始演奏了，大鬼小鬼们飘飘然地回到舞场。

It was as if he didn't want other people to talk to him, he was afraid that their chattering voices would drown out the memory of her voice.

好像他根本不想听别人对他说话，因为嘈杂的闲聊会淹没他对她音的记忆。

It's a pebble that must have been tumbled downstream, banged and smoothed against other stones as it went, in the process that geologists poetically describe as 'chattering'.

这肯定是一枚来自下游的卵石了，逐流而下的过程中，受流水冲刷，在砂石间反复翻滚摩擦，直到棱角尽失，成为圆滑可爱的卵石。地质学家们很诗意地将这过程描述为“千锤百炼，终成正果”。