1. patter的意思

1. The patrol police on duty are on the alert against any possible disturbances.
    值班巡警处于戒备状态，随时准备应付任何可能发生的骚乱。

2. A few big raindrops fell pattering upon the leaves.
    几滴大雨点嗒嗒地打在树叶上。

3. Bare feet pattered along the hard floor.
    光着的脚板在硬地板上啪嗒啪嗒地走。

4. The rain pattered on the roof.
    雨滴滴嗒嗒打在屋顶上。

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2. 抹板：patten 柱基础 | patter 抹板 | pattern 模型

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3. 急促声：patronage 支持 | patter 急促声 | pattern 图案;模形

4. 行话：patten 西洋套鞋 | patter 行话 | pattern bombing 地毯式轰炸

1. 嗒嗒作响；嗒嗒地拍
    If something patters on a surface, it hits it quickly several times, making quiet, tapping sounds.

    e.g. 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。

2. 急促的轻拍声；嗒嗒声
    A patter is a series of quick, quiet, tapping sounds.

    e.g. ...the patter of the driving rain on the roof.
           暴雨打在屋顶上发出的啪嗒声

3. （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''s patter is 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.

    e.g. 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。
    e.g. 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。

1. plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)

    Synonym: spielline of gab

2. a quick succession of light rapid sounds

    e.g. the patter of mice
           the patter of tiny feet

1. make light, rapid and repeated sounds

    e.g. gently pattering rain

    Synonym: pitter-patter

2. rain gently

    e.g. It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick

    Synonym: sprinklespitspatterpitter-patter