英:[ˈwɒfl]
美:[ˈwɑfl]
英:[ˈwɒfl]
美:[ˈwɑfl]
复数:waffles
第三人称单数:waffles
现在分词:waffling
过去式:waffled
过去分词:waffled
noun (1)
a crisp cake of batter baked in a waffle iron
verb
intransitive verb
equivocate, vacillatealso: yo-yo, flip-flop
waffled on the important issues
to talk or write foolishly : blather
can waffle … tiresomely off the point—The Times Literary Supplement (London)
noun (2)
empty or pretentious words : tripe
waffle iron对开式铁心;烘蛋奶饼的铁模
"华夫饼,用铁器烘烤至酥脆并热食",1744年,源自荷兰语 wafel "华夫饼",源自中古荷兰语或中古低地德语 wafel,源自原始日耳曼语 *wabila- "网,蜂巢"(源头还包括古高地德语 waba "蜂巢",德语 Wabe,与古高地德语 weban,古英语 wefan "编织"有关(见 weave(v.))。一些涉及织物编织的组合词中保留了"蜂巢"的意义。1794年出现了 Waffle iron。
Noun (1) Dutch wafel, from Middle Dutch wafele; akin to Old High German waba honeycomb, Old English wefan to weave Verb frequentative of obsolete woff to yelp, of imitative origin
The first known use of waffle was in 1744
wager1 of 2noun
something (as a sum of money) risked on an uncertain event : bet
something (as the outcome of a game or race) on which a bet is made
gamble
wager2 of 2verb
to bet on the outcome of a contest or question
wager1 of 2noun
something (as a sum of money) risked on an uncertain event : bet
something (as the outcome of a game or race) on which a bet is made
gamble
wager2 of 2verb
to bet on the outcome of a contest or question
wag1 of 3verb
to move or swing to and fro or up and down especially with quick jerky movements wagged his finger as he scolded
the dog wagged its tail
wag2 of 3noun
a wagging movement
wag3 of 3noun
joker sense 1, wit
waft1 of 2verb
to move or be moved lightly by or as if by the action of wind or waves
waft2 of 2noun
a slight breeze : puff
waffle1 of 2noun
a crisp cake with an indented crust made by cooking batter in a waffle iron
waffle2 of 2verb
to be unable or unwilling to be clear about choices or opinionsalso: to make a sudden reversal (as of policy)
British to talk or write a lot without saying anything important
waffle1 of 2noun
a crisp cake with an indented crust made by cooking batter in a waffle iron
waffle2 of 2verb
to be unable or unwilling to be clear about choices or opinionsalso: to make a sudden reversal (as of policy)
British to talk or write a lot without saying anything important
1 I asked him a question but he just went waffling on.
我问他一个问题,可他就是胡扯个没完.
2 Do you waffle when faced with the choice of will or would?
3 One building is my waffle iron . Another is Mike Defeo's coffee pot.
一个建筑是我做华夫饼的烤具, 另一个是MikeDefeo的咖啡壶.
4 My mom made blue waffles and blue eggs for breakfast.
5 Hi.I like that waffle teepee that you have built.
你好,我喜欢你做的华夫饼干小屋。
6 There went my chance at a free waffle.
7 “We’ll all have waffles. And whiskey. If this job doesn’t come off, no one’s going to want to be around me sober. Finished, Nina?”
8 “I remember Papa sometimes taking a break from work to join us. From street vendors, he would buy us handmade waffle cones filled with delicious, rich cream.”
9 Would you like sugar or syrup for the waffles?
女招待:华夫饼上放糖还是放糖浆?
10 At Cassie’s house we’d eat waffles with thin syrup that came from maple trees, not the fake corn syrup stuff, and we’d read the funny pages...
11 I watched as he gave four waffles apiece to two inmates in a row.
12 “I used to work at the waffle place just up the boulevard from there.”
13 He kept waffling and finding excuses not to close the deal.
他一直举棋不定,找出种种理由不予成交。
14 Whereas in business , alas, waffle and bullshit have become the gold standard.
唉,然而在工作中, 模糊其辞和胡说八道都已成了黄金定律.
15 Hedge offered her a plate of flame-grilled waffles with fresh sliced kiwi and pineapple.
16 While she waffled between asking Ham and not asking him, she never gave a thought to asking Julian Singh.
17 She heads over to the counselors’ table and digs into her waffles without a care in the world.
18 Extra officers, he meant, because waffle day presented an enforcement challenge on the food line.
19 “Maybe! Also, I’m starving, and I really need some chicken and waffles in my stomach soon.”
20 I put the waffle square in my mouth and chew so that I don’t cry.
1 拿不定主意
doubtful be in two minds about about doing be in two minds about doing blow hot and cold about blow hot and cold
3 躲躲闪闪
4 废话
fiddlesticks talk stuff crap garbage rot rubbish bullshit bunk BS bilge gibberish tripe verbiage swill horseshit twaddle balderdash bunkum tosh flimflam piffle bollocks gobbledegook tommyrot
5 胡说八道
6 胡写
7 摇摆不定
8 推诿
10 威化饼干
11 胡扯
excursive tilly-vally poo blather flamdoodle kid jazz excursion fiddle applesauce flam blarney flimflam fiddle-faddle fiddlestick boloney bushwa cagmag blabber bleat blab baloney prattle crapola tommyrot argle-bargle jive guff crap piffle fiddlesticks nonsense gibberish poppycock that'll be the day crap on shit prate famous last words
12 胡说
fiddlestick rat fudge bull nonsense cock bullshit COD bunk rhubarb toffee cobbler applesauce bilge tripe hogwash malarkey horseshit eyewash hooey poppycock cack phooey codswallop tosh bosh fiddle-de-dee bulldust jive twaddle haver my eye nuts squit flapdoodle tommyrot rot rubbish kibosh blather maunder talk through hat
13 支吾
14 格子状的
15 犹豫不决
dither indecision shilly-shally waver teeter haver hum and haw uncertain tentative undecided wavering vacillating tentatively indecisively tentativeness shilly-shallying shillyshallying yo-yo toing and froing to and fro
16 乱说
17 躲闪
18 烘饼
20 网格状的
23 絮叨
bang on about be on at to do be on at go on at to do go on at keep on at to do keep on at bang on
24 含糊其词
26 威化饼