babble

• vi.おしゃべりをする；しゃべる；うわずった声を出す
• vt. あいまいに話す；漏らす
• n. あいまいな言葉；ちんぷんかんぷん；ゴロゴロ言う

オノマトペ。

babble (v.)

mid-13c., babeln "to prattle, chatter," akin to other Western European words for stammering and prattling (cognates: Swedish babbla, Old French babillier) attested from the same era, some of which probably were borrowed from others, but etymologists cannot now determine which were original. Probably imitative of baby-talk, in any case (compare Latin babulus "babbler," Greek barbaros "non-Greek-speaking"). "No direct connexion with Babel can be traced; though association with that may have affected the senses" [OED]. Meaning "to repeat oneself incoherently, speak foolishly" is attested from c. 1400. Related: Babbled; babbler; babbling; babblement.

babble (n.)

"idle talk," c. 1500, from babble (v.). In 16c., commonly in reduplicated form bibble-babble.

1. They began to curse and shout in a babble of languages.

彼らは異なる言語でがやがやと罵り始めた。

2.a babble of voices

ざわめき

3.The babble of voices in the next compartment annoyed all of us.

隣の車室の間欠的なざわめきの話し声は私たちを怒らせた.

4.Kemp knocked loudly so as to be heard above the high babble of voices.

ケンプは大きな声でたたいて、人々が大きな声で騒いでいる中で彼の声を聞くことができるようにした。

5.I heard，even over the babble of the crowd，a sharp，shocked intake of breath.

人の声が沸き立っていても、私は誰かが急に冷気を吸っているのを聞いた。