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

• Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.
  接着传来楼梯上细碎的脚步声。
• I? didn't remember what I dreamt last night, but the pattering heavy rain clarified my mind: we were in danger.
  我不记得昨晚做了什么梦，但今早二点钟的大雨却让我头脑异常清晰：我们处于危险之中。
• Babbitt wrung Paul's hands, and waited in the office till Maxwell came pattering out.
  巴比特使劲握握保罗的手，在办公室里等着，直到马克斯韦尔匆匆出来。
• After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
  过了一会儿，她听到远处轻微的脚步声，她急忙擦干眼泪，看看谁来了。
• Inside the wood it was nearly dark, and the whistling and the pattering began almost at once.
  树林里几乎漆黑一片，哨声和啪嗒声几乎是同时开始。
• "Tom, is that you pattering around downstairs?"
  “汤姆，是不是你在楼下嗒嗒地四处跑动？”
• To listen to the falling rain, pattering on the grounds
  倾听雨声，滴答降落大地
• 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。
• We could hear mice pattering about in the attic above our heads.
  我们能听到老鼠在头顶上的阁楼上窜来窜去。
• I heard feet pattering across the floor.
  我听到从地板上拍拍跑过去的脚步声。