| 单词 | blether |
| 例句 | Seventy years on, it is tempting to reappraise our indomitable wartime spirit as a rather tremulous and febrile blethering, more Dad's Army stumbling than unwavering Churchillian resolve. Listening to Britain, edited by Paul Addison and Jeremy?A Crang 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z The Manic Street Preachers – Wales's go-to band for insurrectionist blether – have nothing on this. Neon Neon – review 2013-06-08T23:06:01Z Every literary culture has among its first bearings the "blether" of animals who seek to make sense of human existence. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z Gulliver's Travels was a bible for George Orwell when he was at Eton, and the dean's excellent blethering horses made a world for me, too, when I was young. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z This is the kind of radio made for blethering on to your friends about, for forcing iPlayer links on their ears. Electric Dreams: The Giorgio Moroder Story; Britain in a Box – radio review 2013-05-17T06:00:45Z Anyway, enough club blether and back to the Euros. Euro 2020: France reaction, Turkey v Wales buildup and more – live! 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Moreover, he has proved very adept at projecting that likability on stage – where what he refers to as his “blether” between songs occasionally lasts as long as the songs themselves – and on social media. Lewis Capaldi: ‘They’re screaming America’s sweetheart at me. It’s wild’ 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z She was always late for class in the morning because she would stay back at breakfast club to blether. Playhouse in memory of murdered Alesha, 6 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z “When the flats were new, everybody knew their neighbours, your door was always open and you’d always stop for a blether when you passed someone on the stairs,” she said. End of the Red Road: residents mourn Glasgow's high-rise dream gone wrong 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Many also used typical Scottish words like "crabbit" and "blether" in their stories. Wee and gran among Scots children's favourite words - BBC News 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z It appears as though half of the amiable 53-year-old's practice time is spent laughing and blethering with his fellow competitors. Guan Tianlang's penalty overshadows march of the old masters 2013-04-12T21:30:24Z He was over here for the Olympic Games, should you remember those, to be honest I'd totally forgotten about them, a lot of blethering on about nothing much. Manchester City v Real Madrid – live! 2012-11-21T18:34:00Z "My occupation nowadays," he said to me recently, "is business, blethers, bothers, beggars, and backgammon." An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Maudlin, drunken miners, singing, and blethering, and boasting; fighting and rioting worse than poachers, Archie, and among them—heaven help us!—poor women folks that would melt your heart to look on. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z Righteous causes, wicked clauses, All meant bleats and blethers. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 2nd, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:16.737Z His remarks were quite personal, ye'll understand, an' he counted down the notes on the table an' blethered an' howled an' reminded the Cur-rnel that he had lost three hunder to him the last week. Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z But at that wretched Lupton early rising was part of the infernal blether and blatter of the place, that made life there like a long dinner in which every dish has the same sauce. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Warming to its theme, the statement continued blethering indignantly, drawing itself up to its full height as it went a worrying shade of pompous puce. The Fiver 2010-06-02T15:48:00Z There are two woman seated on these railings having a blether and below there's a woman hanging out washing. Macmillan iconic images exhibited 2010-02-27T02:02:00Z The blethering idiot is most dangerous as well as most disagreeable. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 The cup that old Mary saw in the tea leaves seemed something more than "blether" when it was noised abroad that Anna and Jamie were to be married. My Lady of the Chimney Corner In the bosom of this family, unaccustomed to the tropical nonsense of the West, it became plain the Sunday Herald and poor blethering Pinkerton had been accepted for their face. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) That question Burns answered when he sat down by the ingle-cheek, and, looking backward, mused on the years of youth that had been spent 'in stringing blethers up in rhyme for fools to sing.' Robert Burns Famous Scots Series "I'm talkin' blether," she said, stumbling over a stone in the road. Changing Winds A Novel These blethers were not original inventions, but merely varnished repetitions. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 Then come the sheep themselves, with cracking ankle-joints, clattering feet, muffled blethering, 208 a cloud of dust, and the inevitable sheep smell. The Free Range "He couldna be bothered with your blethering most likely!" said she. Simon There were several men in Barbie who liked to talk in that way, and among them Puffy Importance, when graciously inclined, found ready listeners to his pompous blether about the "Univairsity." The House with the Green Shutters Oh, I can hear him spoutin' away about me ... he got into parliament soon after that, an' used to denounce landlords an' blether away about progress. Changing Winds A Novel Burns was quite aware of this when he wrote— "And baith a yellow George to claim, And thole their blethers." Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 From the 44 distance the first sound was the ceaseless blethering of the flock that proclaimed its misery. The Free Range "Dreams is just a curran blethers," said the smith in scorn. A Dominie in Doubt "Hold your blether about smarting and suffering, you fool, or you'll get me nabbed," replied Ralph, who had now concealed both roosters. The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century “I’ll run her right over where the blether was took down.” Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp At first Johnston gave no heed to Will's blethers; but still they gradually made an impression upon him. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 13 The next instant they had started forward on a run, blethering the news of water back along the dim, heaving line. The Free Range Here you've been blundering and blethering and talking these fifteen years and more, and I've never seen anything come of them yet. The Drone A Play in Three Acts De Kalb is dead; your blethering Irishman, Rutherford, is captured; and your rag-tag rebel army is scattered to the four winds. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady But it's all blethers to think that an indented chin means character. The Judge "Cush quackery go, But, besides you must know, I'd heard of a profiting Prophet below; Big botherum blether, Who pretended to gather The tricks that the Moon meant to play with the weather." The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood Soon the tinkle of the bells and the blethering of the animals themselves reached him, and he started leisurely back to meet Rubino. The Free Range Oh, SAUNDERSON, my Colonel, Could you but pull together, Orange and Green, a truce were seen To bigotry and blether. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892 Without staying to tell Blinder what he was blethering about, he hurried off to Grizel, who was waiting for him in the Den, and to her he poured out his astonishing news. Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood "God do so to me, and more also," shouted he, springing to his feet, "'gin I humble not this blethering boaster, and stop his craw, or he maun stop mine." Stories of the Border Marches What a blethering idiot she must have thought me! The Belfry From the reclining hundreds came the soft bleating of ewes calling their young, which is only heard at the daily bedding, the low-toned blethering of the others of the flock, and the tinkle of bells. The Free Range Something must be done, were it only to stop the perpetual, as we call it in Scottish phrase, blethering! Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character "Barilla," said the assistant, biting the end of his pen, and added pensively, "and blethers." Love and Mr. Lewisham Instead of the usual cheery "Good morning," a major of a famous Highland regiment was scandalised by an elderly subaltern blethering out, "Cannibal—Custard—Claymore—Caramel," in an abominable Scotch accent. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917 The man who would govern a nation by writing its songs was a blethering idiot beside the fellow who can edit its news dispatches. The Marrow of Tradition I've letters to write, and I can't be tormented by his blether, so I am rushing Jane to the door with orders to look him firmly in the eye and tell him I am out. Dear Enemy There is a pure Scottish term, which I have always thought more expressive than any English word of ideas connected with manners in society--I mean the word to blether, or blethering, or blethers. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Blethers, the whole thing, of course—or mostly blethers. Echoes of the War "That man's a blether!" said the minister, as he and the schoolmaster came away from the member's house. The Foolish Lovers Sir Harry Lauder, interviewed by the Era, gave it as his opinion that both the Grand Duke and the Prince were gowks, who would do well to haud their blether. The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion He is a traitor who links his fortunes with that vile, murderous upstart, that blethering hypocrite, Oliver Cromwell. John Enderby As Jack afterward said, "They blethered like a lot o' wild geese." Stories by English Authors: the Sea "And yon blethers about the working-man!" he ingeminated as he shaved. Huntingtower "Ah, quit blethering about hard work," Uncle William exclaimed, bending to the oars. The Foolish Lovers If I were not a hermit I would go to the House every day and see those people scuffle over it and blether about the brotherhood of the human race. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) In the bosom of this family, unaccustomed to the tropical nonsense of the West, it became plain the Sunday Herald and poor, blethering Pinkerton had been accepted for their face. The Wrecker |
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