rattle around

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To take up little space in a house or other building that one occupies; to live somewhere that is needlessly spacious. informal
    — His mother had died within a year after his return; his wife and newborn son, both from influenza, in 1916 when Francine was four. Now the two of them rattled around in the old house, even with his office and small clinic sharing the downstairs with the kitchen, parlor, and dining room.

词形变化

rattles around present,singular,third-person rattling around participle,present rattled around participle,past rattled around past
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