maunder
verb mainly UK or US literary uk/ˈmɔːn.dər/ us/ˈmɑːn.dɚ/
东拉西扯长篇大论地说/写
to talk or write in a confused way, often for a long time
Tony continued to maunder on about his great passion. 托尼继续滔滔不绝地讲他最爱做的事情。
He maundered about her being the best thing that had ever happened to him. 他胡乱地唠叨说发生在他身上最好的事情就是遇见了她。
Synonym: ramble (TALK/WRITE)
徘徊，闲逛;心不在焉地做事
to move or behave in a slow, lazy way, without paying attention to anything
And who is going to watch him maundering about for two-and-a-half hours? 而且谁会想看他闲逛两个半小时呢？
- More examples
- I could hear my kinsman maundering to himself in an altered and melancholy mood.
- There was Ray, maundering and mumbling and falling over.
- I didn't, for example, think we'd maunder through the twilight years of our kind, just splitting hairs.
- He began to maunder around the court like a man who had lost a dollar and found a dime.