| 单词 | country talk |
| 释义 | > as lemmascountry talk country talk n. now rare the talk or gossip of a rural area; (also) the subject of such talk. ΚΠ 1588 A. Fraunce Lawiers Logike i. ii. f. 5v As well might a man say there must be two arts of Grammer..one for courtly speeche, an other for country talke. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. i. 169 Dorothea having lost her Fame, Scornes to be Country talk, and peoples game. 1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. x. 35 The parson..had made himself a country-talk by a breach of all decorum. 1868 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers (rev. ed.) 115 There may be nothing lofty in the sentiment, or fine in the expression, but it is careless country talk. 2011 S. P. Stamatis & P. S. Stamatis Dandelions for Dinner iv. 44 Panagiotis said nothing. That made Nitsa wonder whether he was so urbane that all the country talk bored him. < as lemmas |
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