Just put the apple butter away, boy.

别费口舌了，小子。

These words have been used to make the case that she should resign.

些话落人口舌，借此要求她下台。

She paused and thought it might be difficult to get the hat without some explanation.

她停了停，觉得要拿到那顶帽子大概非费一番口舌不可。

So, sometimes it means you are wasting your breath, like in this example.

所以，有意味着你在浪费口舌，就像下面的例子。

I already know all this! Now, you're just preaching to the choir.

些我都知道！现在，你只是在" 白费口舌" 。

Stop me if I'm wasting my breath.

如果我是在浪费口舌 趁早说。

It's always better to lie than to have the complicated discussion.

说谎比费口舌解释要好太多了。

Pembroke said and did all the right things to keep me here.

彭布罗克费尽口舌让我留下来。

Arther, he can disappear into thin air. He didn't have to talk his way out of anything.

亚瑟，他能一声不响就消失在空气中。没必要费口舌才逃脱。

People who do not want to hear our ideas, tell us not to " waste our breath" .

不想听我们想法的人告诉我们不要" 浪费口舌" 。

The boy had stood hopefully next to me during this exchange, but now I was just as helpless.

在我们的口舌交锋中，那个男孩满怀希望地站在我的旁边, 但现在我也和他一样没招儿了。

The two men did not argue directly in public, however. They fought their war of words in two newspapers.

不过，两人并未公开直接辩论，而是在两家报纸上进行了口舌之战。

Harry decided not to waste his remaining breath on pointing out that he could barely walk under Dudley's bulk.

哈利已经累得气都喘不匀了，心想还是不要浪费口舌去向费格太太解释说达力压得他几乎走不动路了吧。

Let me save you all of your hemming and hawing. Sheldon already told me that you and Penny are engaged.

你就不必多费口舌了，谢尔顿已经告诉我，你和佩妮订婚了。

Still Matthew said nothing and Marilla had a sense of having wasted words and breath.

马修仍然一言不发，玛丽拉有种白费口舌的感觉。

It's a waste of breath of words to describe yourself that way.

那样描述自己是浪费口舌。

It did then start to fall apart somewhat, but we won't dwell on that.

然后情况开始有些失控，但我们不会在上面多费口舌。

My mother had a tongue like that, Mary, when she died.

我母亲临终前也是口舌如刀，玛丽。

She didn't belabor the point, but that had to be hard to write.

她没有多费口舌，但那一定很难写出来。

We just have to do like a lot of convincing.

我们 just 只好多费点口舌去说服了。