| 词汇 | drone on |
| 释义 | Phr V drone on drones, droning, droned drone on to talk for a long time in a very boring wayoften + aboutShe droned on for hours about her family history. drone on to speak for a long time in a very boring way, without any variety in the sound of your voice: The speaker had been droning on for hours, when I noticed that he still had a large stack of slides to go through.+about She droned on and on about how sad her life was, and about how she hadn't got a boyfriend.■ SIMILAR TO: bang on BrE informal, witter on BrE informal drone onTo talk at length in a monotone. If you keep droning on like this, you're going to put your audience to sleep. A: "The professor's already been droning on about polynomials for an hour." B: "Oh, so that's why I lost interest an hour ago!" drone on (about someone or something)to lecture or narrate in a low-pitched, dull, and boring manner. The dull old professor droned on about Byron—or was it Keats? It was Shelley and, yes, he did drone on. |
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