2[intransitiveI always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]MOVE/CHANGE POSITION to move quickly and noisily 急速而发出响声地移动
children clattering up and down the stairs
在楼梯上啪嗒啪嗒地走上走下的孩子
—clatter noun [singular, uncountableU]
the clatter of dishes
盘碟相碰的当啷声
Examples from the Corpus
clatter• Her splayed arms sent the dishesclattering.• Her heart was clattering inside her.• Boldly he kickedloosestones off the ledges and heard them clatter into the silence below.• His gunclattered noisily to the floor.• Wyatt hoisted himself up into the truck and began to push and shove the rest of the load on to the clatteringpile.• All the potsclattered to the floor.• He picked out something from the shelves and made a clatteringU-turn.