| 单词 | talk |
| 释义 | talk (once / 16 pages) 1vn 2vn 3vn When you open your mouth and say something, you talk. You tell someone something, or have a conversation, or exchange information. A speech can also be called a talk. Talk is a word that’s always connected to speaking. In a movie, a hero being tortured by bad guys might be told that they will "make him talk," which means they want him to reveal secret info. Someone who is "the talk of the town" is being gossiped about by everyone. If someone says, "We need to talk," it often means they have bad news for you. Anytime people are conversing, chatting, or blabbing, they're talking. WORD FAMILYtalk: talkative, talked, talker, talking, talks, talky+/talkative: talkatively, talkativeness, untalkative/talker: talkers/talking: talkings/talky: talkier, talkiest, talkily USAGE EXAMPLES"If you talk about decisions, we are the champions of bad decisions," added Mourinho. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Driving away from the scene, the men say little about the ordeal aside from nervous small talk. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Her reason: Obama hadn’t silenced talk, based on findings of the CIA and FBI, that Russia meddled in the election to aid Trump. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1v use language the baby talks already Syn|Hypo|Hyper speak run on talk or narrate at length smatterspeak with spotty or superficial knowledge slanguse slang or vulgar language communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 2v express in speech She talks a lot of nonsense Syn|Hypo|Hyper mouth, speak, utter, verbalise, verbalize verbalise, verbalize be verbose read look at, interpret, and say out loud something that is written or printed phonate, vocalise, vocalizeutter speech sounds trollspeak or recite rapidly or in a rolling voice beginbegin to speak or say lip off, shoot one's mouth offspeak spontaneously and without restraint shoututter in a loud voice; talk in a loud voice (usually denoting characteristic manner of speaking) whisperspeak softly; in a low voice peepspeak in a hesitant and high-pitched tone of voice speak upspeak louder; raise one's voice snap, snarlutter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone enthuseutter with enthusiasm speak in tonguesspeak unintelligibly in or as if in religious ecstasy swallowutter indistinctly verbalise, verbalizebe verbose whiffutter with a puff of air talk about, talk ofdiscuss or mention blubber, blubber oututter while crying drone, drone ontalk in a monotonous voice bumble, falter, stammer, stutterspeak haltingly rasputter in a grating voice blunder, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculateutter impulsively inflect, modulate, tonevary the pitch of one's speech deliver, presentdeliver (a speech, oration, or idea) generalise, generalizespeak or write in generalities blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddlespeak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly chattermake noise as if chattering away jaw, rattle on, yack, yack away, yap awaytalk incessantly and tiresomely open uptalk freely and without inhibition snivel, whinetalk in a tearful manner murmurspeak softly or indistinctly maunder, mumble, mussitate, muttertalk indistinctly; usually in a low voice slurutter indistinctly barkspeak in an unfriendly tone bayutter in deep prolonged tones jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spouttalk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner hiss, sibilate, siss, sizzexpress or utter with a hiss cackletalk or utter in a cackling manner babbleutter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way chant, intone, toneutter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically gulputter or make a noise, as when swallowing too quickly singproduce tones with the voice numerateread out loud as words written numbers dictatesay out loud for the purpose of recording discuss, hash out, talk overspeak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion blasphemespeak of in an irreverent or impious manner coospeak softly or lovingly scream, yellutter or declare in a very loud voice holler, holler outshout out roar, thunderutter words loudly and forcefully rhapsodise, rhapsodizesay (something) with great enthusiasm speechifymake speeches; hold forth, or harangue with a certain degree of formality babble, blather, blether, blither, smatterto talk foolishly susurrateissue soft noises bawl, bellowshout loudly and without restraint placesing a note with the correct pitch trollsing loudly and without inhibition croonsing softly cantillate, chant, intonate, intonerecite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm descant, warble, yodelsing by changing register; sing by yodeling quaver, trill, warblesing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below treblesing treble humsing with closed lips callread aloud to check for omissions or absentees belt, belt outsing loudly and forcefully descant onsing a descant on a main tune or melody vocalise, vocalizesing (each note a scale or in a melody) with the same vowel harmonise, harmonizesing or play in harmony descantsing in descant sing alongsing with a choir or an orchestra psalmsing or celebrate in psalms minstrelcelebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels solmizatesing using syllables like `do', `re' and `mi' to represent the tones of the scale chirp, tweedlesing in modulation choir, chorussing in a choir singdeliver by singing communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 3v exchange thoughts; talk with We often talk business Actions talk louder than words Syn|Hypo|Hyper speak carry on, continue, go on, proceed continue talking discourse, dissertate, hold forthtalk at length and formally about a topic pontificatetalk in a dogmatic and pompous manner oratetalk pompously talk downspeak in a condescending manner, as if to a child spielspeak at great length (about something) dogmatise, dogmatizespeak dogmatically cheekspeak impudently to leveltalk frankly with; lay it on the line talk turkeydiscuss frankly, often in a business context monologuise, monologuize, soliloquise, soliloquizetalk to oneself converse, discoursecarry on a conversation butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander, romancetalk or behave amorously, without serious intentions dish the dirt, gossipwag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies raptalk volubly argue, contend, debate, fencehave an argument about something segueproceed without interruption; in music or talk interview, questionconduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting interviewdiscuss formally with (somebody) for the purpose of an evaluation interviewgo for an interview in the hope of being hired bloviateorate verbosely and windily wantonengage in amorous play vampact seductively with (someone) chaffer, chat, chatter, chew the fat, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visittalk socially without exchanging too much information bruit, rumor, rumourtell or spread rumors jog, ramble, ramble oncontinue talking or writing in a desultory manner communicate, intercommunicate transmit thoughts or feelings 4n discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') his poetry contains much talk about love and anger Hyper discourse, discussion, treatment an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic 5n an exchange of ideas via conversation 2let's have more work and less talk around here Syn|Hypo|Hyper talking cant, pious platitude insincere talk about religion or morals dialog, dialogue, duologuea conversation between two persons heart-to-heartan intimate talk in private shmooze(Yiddish) a warm heart-to-heart talk shop talktalk about your business that only others in the same business can understand idle words, jazz, malarkey, malarky, nothingness, windempty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk cackle, chatter, yack, yak, yakety-yaknoisy talk blether, chin music, idle talk, prate, prattleidle or foolish and irrelevant talk conversation the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc. 1v reveal information If you don't oblige me, I'll talk! Syn|Hyper spill babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, tattle divulge confidential information or secrets tell let something be known 2v divulge confidential information or secrets Be careful--his secretary talks Syn|Ant|Hyper babble, babble out, blab, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, tattle spill reveal information keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information break, bring out, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, let on, let out, reveal, unwrap make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret 3n idle gossip or rumor 3there has been talk about you lately Syn|Hyper talk of the town comment, gossip, scuttlebutt a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people 1v deliver a lecture or talk She will talk at Rutgers next week Syn|Hypo|Hyper lecture preach, prophesy deliver a sermon evangelise, evangelizepreach the gospel (to) instruct, learn, teach impart skills or knowledge to 2n a speech that is open to the public Syn|Hyper lecture, public lecture address, speech the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience 3n the act of giving a talk to an audience I attended an interesting talk on local history Hypo|Hyper chalk talk a talk that uses a blackboard and chalk lecture, lecturing teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) |
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