| 释义 |
over-talk, v.|-ˈtɔːk|
[over- 27, 23, 11.]
a. intr. and refl. To talk too much.
b. trans. To gain over or overcome with talking, to talk over.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1860) 94 If in this rude speech of mine I have over-talked my selfe, or under-spoken thee, impute it to my declining and doting yeares. 1859Tennyson Vivien 963 For Merlin, overtalk'd and overworn, Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept. 1903E. M. Forster in Temple Bar Dec. 682 They shook him and tried to overtalk him, but he still went on.
So ˈover-ˈtalk, n.; ˈover-ˈtalkative a.; ˈover-ˈtalkativeness; ˌover-ˈtalker; ˈover-ˈtalking vbl. n. [over- 28, 29.]
1649Milton Eikon. viii. (1851) 393 By his overtalking of it, [he] seems to doubt either his own conscience, or the hardness of other mens belief. 1670Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 302 There are many over-talkers; and they are such who spend a hundred words when ten will serve the turn. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. 1 Tim. ii. 11 Let them use silence..and not be over-talkative. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xxviii. 247 Everybody agrees as to the evils of over-talkativeness. Ibid., Perhaps it is only those who had rather hold their tongues who are safe from over-talk. |