"Get up, you idiot," he said, sternly, "or I'll brain you with this inkstand. That's Rosine and her father. what a drivelling idiot old Patterson is! Get up, here, Billy Keogh, and help me. What the devil are we going to do? Has all the world gone crazy?"英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
Am I mad, or do I but verge on madness? O Lord, whom in my agonies I have confessed, leave me my intellect--let me not become a drivelling spectacle for the curious to point at or to pity! At least, in mercy, spare me a little. Let not my punishment overtake me here. Let her memories of me be clouded with a sense of my rudeness or my brutality; let me for ever seem to her the ungrateful ruffian I strive to show myself--but let her not behold me--that!英文原著 · 《For the Term of His Natural Life》
"Mame blushed. I didn't know what to think about her. My hopes raised some that perhaps my attentions had palliated man's awful crime of visibly introducing nourishment into his system. She talked some about the stars, referring to them with respect and politeness, and I drivelled a quantity about united hearts, homes made bright by true affection, and the Kindler. Mame listened without scorn, and I says to myself, 'Jeff, old man, you're removing the hoodoo that has clung to the consumer of victuals; you're setting your heel upon the serpent that lurks in the gravy bowl.'英文原著 · 《Heart of the West》
So you're writing for a paper? Well, it's nothing very new To be writing yards of drivel for a tidy little screw; You are young and educated, and a clever chap you are, But you'll never run a paper like the CAMBAROORA STAR. Though in point of education I am nothing but a dunce, I myself -- you mayn't believe it -- helped to run a paper once With a chap on Cambaroora, by the name of Charlie Brown, And I'll tell you all about it if you'll take the story down.英文原著 · 《In the Days When the World Was Wide》
'Twixt mother's arms and coffin-gear a man has work to do! And if he does his very best he mostly worries through, And while there is a wrong to right, and while the world goes round, An honest man alive is worth a million underground. And yet, as long as sheoaks sigh and wattle-blossoms bloom, The world shall hear the drivel of the poets of the tomb.英文原著 · 《In the Days When the World Was Wide》
Thereby Cocytus wholly was congealed. With six eyes did he weep, and down three chins
Trickled the tear-drops and the bloody drivel.英文原著 · 《Inferno》
I'm always astounded when a man like you expresses such unadulterated drivel.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》