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

• Sarah, is that, you pattering around downstairs?
  萨拉，是你在楼下踱来踱去吗？
• When Chu Kuei-ying reached her "home," it had already started raining, and heavy, scattered drops were pattering against the bamboo door.
  朱桂英到了她的所谓“家”的时候，已经在下雨了；很稀很大的雨点子，打得她“家”的竹门地响。
• 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。
• Then, come, my rainy nights with pattering feet; smile, my golden autumn; come, careless April, scattering your kisses abroad.
  那么，来吧，我的雨夜的脚步声；微笑吧，我的金色的秋天；来吧，无虑无忧的四月，散掷着你的亲吻。
• To listen to the falling rain, pattering on the grounds
  倾听雨声，滴答降落大地
• I heard feet pattering across the floor.
  我听到从地板上拍拍跑过去的脚步声。
• 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。
• 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。
• "Tom, is that you pattering around downstairs?"
  “汤姆，是不是你在楼下嗒嗒地四处跑动？”
• 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。