The moonlight was bright and everything was quite still except for the noise of the river chattering over the stones.

月光皎洁，除了河水潺潺流过石头的声音，一切都十分寂静。

Switching gears, any union chatter over there?

换个话题 有什么工会的苗头吗?

In the corner a group of Negroes chanted and chattered in the cone of light over a crap table.

在角落里，一群黑人在掷骰子赌桌上的光锥中高喊着、喋喋不休。

If you were going through the forest, you would hear such a noise and chattering in the boughs over your head, that you would wonder what was the matter.

当你在森林中穿行的时候，你就会听到头顶的树枝上传来的叽叽喳喳的声音，你就会想这是怎么回事。

An intermittent chatter over a poker game was going on in the next tent, and outside a man was strolling up the company street singing a current bit of doggerel about " K-K-K-Katy" .

隔壁帐篷里有人在打扑克时断断续续地聊天，外面一个男人正沿着公司的街道漫步，唱着一首关于“K-K-K-Katy”的打油诗。

How was it that they could sit, not restless, playing dominoes or chattering, over nothing more beguiling than glasses of coffee (and why was it that they drank coffee in glasses, anyway, instead of in cups)?

他们怎么能安安稳稳地坐着，玩多米诺骨牌或聊天，喝着比一杯咖啡更迷人的东西（而且为什么他们喝咖啡是用玻璃杯而不是用杯子喝的）？

Dusk in the streets now, and children playing, shouting up incoherent ecstatic words that faded out close to the open window—and Muriel, who had come to find Gloria, chattering to him from an opaque gloom over across the room.

现在街上已是黄昏，孩子们在玩耍，大喊着语无伦次的狂喜话语，这些话语在敞开的窗户附近逐渐消失——还有穆里尔，他来找格洛丽亚，在房间另一头不透明的阴暗中和他喋喋不休。