Patter

(noun.) a quick succession of light rapid sounds; 'the patter of mice'; 'the patter of tiny feet'.

(verb.) make light, rapid and repeated sounds; 'gently pattering rain'.

手打:波莱特

• No routine has ever done that in spite of the conservative patter about human nature; mechanical politics has usually begun by ignoring and ended by violating the nature of men. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Go patter thy petitions to heaven, said the fierce Norman, for we on earth have no time to listen to them. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The garden was truly growing dark; dusk had come on with clouds, and drops of rain began to patter through the trees. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• To make the matter worse, the church door had reopened, and the aisles were filling: patter, patter, patter, a hundred little feet trotted in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn retires into another chamber; bells ring, feet shuffle and patter, silence ensues. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The rain came down, thick and fast, and pattered noisily among the leafless bushes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Outside the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered against the windows. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• As my waking sense returned, the bare walls of the guard room closed round me, and the rain pattered against the single window. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The rain fell heavily on the roof, and pattered on the ground, and dripped among the evergreens and the leafless branches of the trees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At first it dropped slowly and regularly, then it pattered into a stream. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• Sometimes she observed the war of elements, thinking that they also declared against her, and listened to the pattering of the rain in gloomy despair. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I had nothing to do but listen to the pattering of the fountains and take medicine and throw it up again. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The pattering of a little child's feet, ever coming on--on--on? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• His pattering steps and mine alone were heard, when we entered the magnificent extent of nave and aisle of St. Peter's. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I told him to go to sleep alone, and here he is, downstairs, getting his death a-cold pattering over that canvas, said Meg, answering the call. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The pattering rain and howling wind alone replied to her. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• They may hunt the whole country-side, while the raindrops are pattering round their inactivity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

整理:莱昂内尔