英:['tærədɪdl]
美:['tærəˌdɪdl]
英:['tærədɪdl]
美:['tærəˌdɪdl]
Noun
1. a trivial lie;
"he told a fib about eating his spinach"
"how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
2. pretentious or silly talk or writing
origin unknown
The first known use of taradiddle was circa 1796
1 Of course, perhaps there really are “both sides” to this question: truth and taradiddle.
2 He was court-martialed once for being drunk on duty and another time for a taradiddle with his pay stubs.
3 If I have been telling nasty horrid wicked little taradiddles, Upward won’t give me away, for I shall tip him the masonic wink not to.
4 Now the fiddlers tune their fiddles To the lovely taradiddles Of old Wagner, Mozart, Bizet, and the rest.
5 Eugene choked with a sense of repugnance to her airy taradiddles.
6 Catherine Rampell’s Nov. 16 op-ed, “Delusions on both sides of the aisle,” provided a cogent explanation of the current inflation taradiddle.
7 You shall have a sovereign for that taradiddle!
8 Well; never mind, I accept the responsibility, and will create even another taradiddle.
9 Life is a Sphinx: folk cannot solve her riddles, So they've recourse to spiteful taradiddles, Which they dub "Reminiscences."
10 Philip's smile contradicted this awful taradiddle, and Patty rejoiced at his nonsense.
11 The worst of being so babyish is—one does have to tell such a lot of taradiddles!
12 We would like to do so, of course; but our sense of truth revolts against the enunciation of such a taradiddle.
13 Everybody told us it would be very cold, and, as usual, everybody told taradiddles.
14 his tales of adventure are peppered with tongue-in-cheek taradiddles and obvious fabrications
15 regards literary deconstruction as so much tenure-track taradiddle
16 Some are esoteric but still used—like taradiddle, which the list notes was recently used by J.K. Rowling but saw more play in the work of Gilbert and Sullivan, Honoré de Balzac and G.K. Chesterton.
17 That's all taradiddle!
那都是胡说八道!
18 The letter was legal taradiddle and carried about as much weight.
1 废话
fiddle-de-dee tosh COD squit malarkey crud poppycock tommyrot stuff wind shit trash crap garbage punk cock rubbish blah bullshit fudge rhubarb pap mouthwash cobbler bilge gibberish tripe verbiage hogwash yammer claptrap hokum palaver codswallop blarney flimflam trumpery flummery haver twaddle stuff and nonsense
2 胡说
balls ballocks shit nonsense cock rot rubbish bullshit gibberish tripe hokum bunkum codswallop cobblers bosh hog-wash drivel blather maunder talk through hat my eye fudge pooh fiddlestick fiddle-de-dee blah rhubarb applesauce gammon hooey poppycock flimflam falderal bizzbazz gas piffle
4 小谎话
5 吹牛
braggart gas braggadocio shenanigan cockalorum fanfaronade blow brag rodomontade put it on tall tale toot horn big words blow own horn talk tall shoot a line fish story
6 瞎说