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

• 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。
• After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
  过了一会儿，她听到远处轻微的脚步声，她急忙擦干眼泪，看看谁来了。
• The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.
  孤岩侧面的矮灌木林丛被摇晃着，大量的雨珠啪嗒啪嗒地直往下掉。
• 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。
• Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
  接着传来楼梯上细碎的脚步声。
• 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。
• I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way fresh snow crunched under my black rubber boots, for the warmth of the cast-iron stove as the wind screeched through the yards, the streets.
  我喜欢夜里满天飞雪轻轻敲打我的窗户，我喜欢新霁的积雪在我的黑色胶靴下吱嘎作响，我喜欢感受铁炉的温暖，听寒风呼啸着吹过街道、吹过院子。
• We could hear mice pattering about in the attic above our heads.
  我们能听到老鼠在头顶上的阁楼上窜来窜去。
• A few big raindrops fell pattering upon the leaves.
  几滴大雨点嗒嗒地打在树叶上。
• Sarah, is that, you pattering around downstairs?
  萨拉，是你在楼下踱来踱去吗？