"Very well. And I'm going to Fomishka's and Fimishka's oasis. And do you know what I should like to say? There's twaddle here and twaddle there, only that twaddle, the twaddle of the eighteenth century, is nearer to the Russian character than the twaddle of the twentieth century. Goodbye, gentlemen. I'm drunk, so don't be offended at what I say, only a better woman than my sister Snandulia ... is not to be found on God's earth, although she is a hunchback and called Snandulia. That's how things are arranged in this world!英文原著 · 《Virgin Soil》
Coke had a wooden-headed conviction that he must make Nora understand Marjory's infinite superiority to all others of her sex, and so he passed into a pariegyric, each word of which was a hot coal to the girl addressed. Nothing would stop him, apparently. He even made the most stupid repetitions. Nora finally stamped her foot formidably. "Will you stop? Will you stop ? " she said through her clenched teeth. " Do you think I want to listen to your everlasting twaddle about her?英文原著 · 《Active Service》
(That interesting young man had arrived on the Harriet Lane that morning and ridden up Broadway between cheering hosts.) 'I've got a sketch of him here an'it's all twaddle. Tell us something new about him. If he's got a hole in his sock we ought to know it. Mr Dana came in to see him while I was there. 'Look here, Dana,'said the Printer, in a rasping humour. 'By the gods of war! here's two colunms about that perfonnance at the Academy and only two sticks of the speech of Seward at St Paul. I ll have to get someone if go an'burn that theatre an'send the bill to me.英文原著 · 《Eben Holden》
'That's twaddle, Dora. Fools will be fools to the world's end. Answer a fool according to his folly; supply a simpleton with the reading he craves, if it will put money in your pocket. You have discouraged poor Whelpdale in one of the most notable projects of modern times.'英文原著 · 《New Grub Street》
There has never been anything like it--never. There never will be--I laugh to scorn old people who tell me about your Noblet, your Montessu, your Vestris, your Parisot--pshaw, the senile twaddlers! And the impudence of the young men, with their music and their dancers of to-day! I tell you the women are dreary old creatures. I tell you one air in an opera is just like another, and they send all rational creatures to sleep. Ah, Ronzi de Begnis, thou lovely one! Ah, Caradoni, thou smiling angel! Ah, Malibran!英文原著 · 《Roundabout Papers》
"But you err in good company, Bunny, for all the cheap moralists who preach the same twaddle: old Virgil was the first and worst offender of you all. I back myself to climb out of Avernus any day I like, and sooner or later I shall climb out for good. I suppose I can't very well turn myself into a Limited Liability Company. But I could retire and settle down and live blamelessly ever after. I'm not sure that it couldn't be done on this pearl alone!"英文原著 · 《The Amateur Cracksman》
Someday, scientists will discover That second X chromosome contains nothing But nonsense and twaddle.美剧 · 《The Big Bang Theory》