waffle
waffle 英 [ˈwɒfl] 美 [ˈwɑfl]
n. 华夫饼干；动听而无意义的话；无聊话 vi. 胡扯；闲聊
进行时:waffling 过去式:waffled 过去分词:waffled 第三人称单数:waffles 名词复数:waffles
- You might think of a waffle as a grid-patterned pancake-like food that's tasty with syrup, and you'd be right. But the word is also a verb that means to avoid making a definitive decision.
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- n. 华夫饼干；动听而无意义的话；无聊话
- vi. 胡扯；闲聊
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1. Keeping things short and sweet not only shows people that you are concise and don't waffle, but that you also know what you want.
亲切简洁的语言彰显了你简明的个性，不仅不会被误认为是在胡扯，还让对方知道你是一个了解自己想要什么的人。
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2. Barry McRoy, a South Carolina fire and rescue director, was leaving a waffle House restaurant when two men came in fighting over a gun.
巴里·麦克罗伊是一位南加利福尼亚州的火灾和营救主管，当他离开“闲聊屋”旅店的时候正好碰上两个人在枪战。
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3. He needs to be a lot clearer and firmer about how he will deal with America’s foes and rivals: his first instinct when Russia invaded Georgia was to waffle.
他需要更加清楚以及坚定他将如何处理美国的敌人和竞争对手。 当俄罗斯入侵格鲁吉亚的时候，他的第一反应竟认为这是胡扯。
- waffle (n.) "kind of batter-cake, baked crisp in irons and served hot," 1744, from Dutch wafel "waffle," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wafel, from Proto-Germanic *wabila- "web, honeycomb" (source also of Old High German waba "honeycomb," German Wabe), related to Old High German weban, Old English wefan "to weave" (see weave (v.)). Sense of "honeycomb" is preserved in some combinations referring to a weave of cloth. Waffle iron is from 1794.
- waffle (v.) 1690s, "to yelp, bark," frequentative of provincial waff "to yelp, to bark like a puppy" (1610); possibly of imitative origin. Figurative sense of "talk foolishly" (c. 1700) led to that of "vacillate, equivocate" (1803), originally a Scottish and northern English usage. Late 17c. Scottish also had waff "act of waving," variant of waft, which might have influenced the sense. Related: Waffled; waffler; waffling.
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