" I mean, he drones on about famous exploits a bit, and he absolutely fawns on McLaggen because he's so well connected, but he gave us some really nice food and he introduced us to Gwenog Jones."

“我是说，他唠唠地说了很多自己功绩，而且他拍尽了McLaggen马屁因为他和他关系密切，但是他确提供给我们很好食物而且他把我们介绍给了Gwenog Jones。”

We are always hemmed in by what can be termed 'family work scripts', this is scripts that guide us—often very subtly but also very heavily—towards certain occupations and away from others.

时不时地，我们会听到家训。那是本用来约束家族行为守则：看似寥寥数言却重如泰山。比如持家治业、为人处事。

Artie Beckwith? He couldn't walk two feet without complaining. He marched on Washington?

阿蒂·贝壳维斯吗？那个絮絮、 怨天尤人怂货。他去华盛顿游行过？

Zazu, completely oblivious to his part in the hunt, rambled on.

沙祖完全没有意识到自己在这场追捕行动中扮演角色，仍在絮絮。

Harry did not stay to watch Slughorn splutter.

哈利没有留下继续听斯拉格霍恩絮絮。

But when the candidate droned on in his response, Jobs broke in.

但是，当应聘者开始唠唠地回答问题时，乔布斯打断了他。

One day he was going on and on.

有天他絮絮说个没完。

O'Malley's a fetus. He's all whiney and afraid of the light.

O'Malley 像个胎儿。整天唠唠还怕见光。

Why? 'Cause you don't want to hear him complain?

为什么？因为你怕他跟你吗？

It was like...you know, you came from a place where there are cubes and people and, you know, there were, like, gophers everywhere, coming out of these cubes. " Hey, what's going on? Blah, blah, blah."

就像… … 你知道，你来自个有立方体和人地方，到处都是勤杂工，从这立方体里伸出来。“嘿，怎么样啊？七八糟。”

This makes matters easier for the reader, and the reader must always be your main concern; without Constant Reader, you are just a voice quacking in the void.

这样更容易为读者所接受，而你应该总是把读者放在心上；若没有你忠实读者，你将只是个冲着虚空絮絮声音而已。

I asked HR whether this was really allowed and they started muttering some twaddle about dogs and discrimination; they also said that the skunk's scent glands had been removed.

我问HR真允许这样做吗，然后HR开始絮絮地说关于狗和歧视废话，HR还说臭鼬气味腺体已经被切除。

" Yes, " said Wilson. " There's that. Doesn't do to talk too much about all this. Talk the whole thing away. No pleasure in anything if you mouth it up too much."

" 有，" 威尔逊说，" 说得对。可别翻来复去地把这说个没完。谈得太多就变成扯淡。不管什么事情，你要是唠唠地讲个没完没了话，就不会有乐趣。"

Now one had to be able to blabber on about anything with any old sod who happened to stray within an arm's length of you purely because it was " nice."

现在人得能和闯入臂距离之内任何怪人任何事情，就是为了表示友好。

I should have abandoned the facts and made her a nagging, tiresome woman, or else a bigoted one with no sympathy for the claims of the spirit.

我将不得不把事实篡改下，把她写成个唠唠、惹人生厌女人，再不然就是性格褊狭，根本不了解精神需求。

He was wearing Professor Quirrell's turban, which kept talking to him, telling him he must transfer to Slytherin at once, because it was his destiny.

他头上顶着奇洛教授大围巾，那围巾个劲地絮絮，对他说，应当立刻转到斯莱特林去，因为那是命中注定。

Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.

茉特尔把她自己椅子拉到我椅子旁边，忽然之间她吐出热气朝我喷来，她絮絮讲起了她跟汤姆初次相逢故事。

If I ask Eli, " Did you get any writing done? " what he hears is, " Nag, nag, nag, nag, nag."

如果我问伊莱 “你写了什么吗”？在他听来我只是在不停地。

I haven't got time to listen to a sermon, all right, Hermione, I'm up to my neck in it here.

赫敏，我没有时间听你唠唠地教训人好吗？我这里已经忙得不可开交了。

Meetings with Frank are frustrating. He always waffles on about unimportant things. Someone needs to have a word with him.

和弗兰克约会实在太糟糕了，他总是唠唠说无关紧要事，得有人去提醒他下呀。