waffled

英 [ˈwɒfld]

美 [ˈwɑːfld]

v. 胡扯; 耍贫嘴; 絮叨; 胡写; 拿不定主意; 三心二意
waffle的过去分词和过去式

柯林斯词典

VERB 胡扯;胡说;废话连篇
If you say that someonewaffles, you are critical of them because they talk or write a lot without actually making any clear or important points.
1. My wife often tells me I waffle...
  我妻子经常说我胡说八道。
2. There was some bloke on the phone waffling about an airline ticket.
  电话里有个家伙在唠叨一张飞机票的事情。
3. Waffle onmeans the same aswaffle.
  waffle on 同 waffle
4. Whenever I open my mouth I don't half waffle on...
  我无论何时开口，从不夸夸其谈。
5. That's all I had to say on the subject — we don't want to waffle on about it all day.
  这个问题我只想说这么多——我们不该一整天都为此废话。
6. Waffleis also a noun.
7. He writes smug, sanctimonious waffle.
  他写的满篇都是自鸣得意、道貌岸然的废话。
VERB 犹豫不决;含糊其词
If someonewaffleson an issue or question, they cannot decide what to do or what their opinion is about it.
1. He's waffled on abortion and gay rights...
  他在堕胎和同性恋权利问题上立场模糊。
2. He kept waffling and finding excuses not to close the deal.
  他一直举棋不定，找出种种理由不予成交。
华夫饼
Awaffleis a kind of square cake made of batter with squares marked on it. Waffles are usually eaten with syrup poured over them.

He waffled on the issue.
关于那个问题，他含糊其词。
He waffled on for hours but no one was listening.
他絮叨了半天，谁也没听进去。
He waffled on for half an hour, and at the end of it had said very little of any importance.
他唠叨了半个小时，结果什么要紧的话也没说出来。
He's waffled on abortion and gay rights
他在堕胎和同性恋权利问题上立场模糊。
Its military leaders, who said they would hold the fort temporarily until multi-party elections had produced a genuine government of the people, have dithered and waffled.
军队首领声称他们只在多党选举产生出人民的政府之前暂时接管要塞城市，但他们已经开始摇摆不定了。
After his brain was hurt in the traffic accident, he always waffled about something that no one could understand.
那次交通事故中他的大脑受伤后，他总是唠叨一些谁也听不懂的话。
The Thai government has waffled on whether it wants the withdrawal of the temple's World Heritage status, but has also dismissed the Yellow Shirt demands.
泰国政府在是否希望把柏威夏寺从世界遗产名录中除名的问题上含糊其辞，但同时也表示不理会黄衫军的诉求。