claver

1 He clavers them over with flattery as the snake clavers the rabbit.

2 "Cut clavers and tell me what ails your mistress!"

3 But I keep on clavering about my own concerns, while you are in doubt and difficulties about yours.

4 Not yet: those green hill-sides, those fields and cattle, must refresh him better than my clavers, after his grim stony mount of purgatory.

5 "You are both reformers: he gained his point by clavers; you attempt to gain yours by knocks."

6 "I mean," explained Donald confusedly "it's no great thing to make a claver about."

7 Such a claver as there was, to be sure, when Tom and the Harrisons met!

8 I am out o’ clash and claver o’ the village folk.

9 No, Peter Claver I am thinking of.

不, 我脑子里想的是彼得·克拉弗.

10 De claver Waytie was a hill leading to a spring covered with grass, where the young maidens used to bleach their linen.

11 "The laird's ower ready wi's clavers," quoth the laird's wife, nettled to find herself in the wrong, and forgetful of her own and her lord's dignity at once.

12 Do you think that I did not hear all this clash and clavers before?

13 It’s sheer nonsense to tell such idle clavers about me.

14 "Hoots wi' y'r giddy claver," said he, before I had spoken a word; and walking off, he sat down at some distance.

15 “Clashes and clavers!” cries Sam, turning on her.

16 “Maybe, if you did, you would think that it’s mair imprudent in me to stand here cracking clavers wi’ the minister than for the minister to waste his time cracking wi’ me.”

17 "Everybody will ken the right wye o' it, and will claver and gossip, when they wad 'a be better to mind their ain affairs, an' let ither folk alane."

18 They were terribly prim at first; but when they found out that I was just a clavering old wife and nothing more, they lost their grand manners.

19 He asked me, the clavering cowherd If I cared for—what was it he called them?—

20 "If we hear more of your clavers," said another, "we are like to hang you up beside him."

1 聊天

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2 闲谈

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3 闲话

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4 说闲话

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