[口語]“喋喋不休”用英語怎么表達(dá)?

如果一個(gè)人跟你喋喋不休地說教，中文中可以用“這話聽得我耳朵都長(zhǎng)繭了”來形容。英文里面類似的說法是talk one's ear off。例如：

例句-1：Stay away from Mr. Jones. He will talk your ear off if he gets a chance.

你得離瓊斯先生遠(yuǎn)一些，如果讓他逮著機(jī)會(huì)，他能跟你聊到你耳朵起繭。

Talk one's ear off意思是“沒完沒了地長(zhǎng)談”，我們?cè)賹W(xué)個(gè)類似的習(xí)慣用語：talk a blue streak。兩者雖然有相近的意義，但是卻不完全一樣。A blue streak原來指閃電，閃電一閃即逝，這個(gè)習(xí)慣用語描述的是“說話奇快無比”。例如：

例句-2：Susan is lovely, but she has one problem - she talks a blue streak. At dinner she chattered away so fast I couldn't get in a word edgewise. I doubt I'll ever ask her out again.

蘇珊雖然長(zhǎng)得可愛，但是她有一個(gè)問題: 她說話快得像放連珠炮。吃飯的時(shí)候，她劈里啪啦一個(gè)勁兒地說，快得我連半句嘴都插不上。我想我再也不會(huì)約她出來了。

再學(xué)個(gè)習(xí)慣用語：talk till you're blue in the face，按照字面來解釋是“一直說到臉色發(fā)青”。它也表示沒完沒了地說話，但是同時(shí)還表示“說得口干舌燥、筋疲力盡”。例如：

例句-3：I talked to my son until I was blue in the face about how he needed to make good grades in high school to get into college. But his grades show that he wasn't really listening.

我跟兒子說想進(jìn)大學(xué)就得在高中拿好成績(jī)，我說得口干舌燥、筋疲力盡。但是兒子的分?jǐn)?shù)說明他沒真的聽進(jìn)去。