| 单词 | talk |
| 释义 | talk I. transitive verb 1. < to say that … is to talk very little sense — Charlton Laird > < the vice-president talked what … was sensible enough — O.W.Holmes †1935 > 2. a. < talked books till the small hours — H.J.Laski > < talk the day's news — Paul Engle > < never … talks personalities — Elmer Davis > — often used with over < talked it over with his family — W.L.Gresham > < suggest … that the three of us talk the situation over — H.B.Safford > b. < talks a good, enlightened prolabor line which … turns out to be window dressing — New Republic > < they don't just talk a good game, they play it — Charles Price > 3. < to talk the language well is still the indispensable accomplishment of a gentleman — E.G.Bulwer-Lytton > < the peculiar French patois that he talked — Aaron Copland > < talked Italian fluently and French like a Frenchman — G.M.Trevelyan > 4. a. < talked herself hoarse answering queries over the phone — Jane Woodfin > < talked him deaf, dumb, and blind > < talk the economy into a recession — New Republic > b. < could talk the university into giving me money enough — Oliver LaFarge > < his own weak effort to talk himself out of what he had already decided to do — W.F.Davis > intransitive verb 1. a. < had supper and talked until very late — Bruce Siberts & W.D.Wyman > < stood outside … in little groups talking — Louis Bromfield > — often used with to or with < talks to the children when they come to see him > < out talking with the neighbors > b. < 30 deaf mutes, their faces alight … when they talk — W.F.McDermott > < ahead of him two flickers were talking — Steve Frazee > < a rawhide drum started talking in measured beats — F.B.Gipson > < on the flying bridge … the light began to talk to us — Vincent McHugh > < how to choose the book that's going to talk to him in a way he finds enjoyable — Horace Sutton > c. < a bracing wind … talks menacingly of storm and stress and shipwreck — Alfred Buchanan > < a gun was talking … filling the night with battle uproar — Alan LeMay > 2. a. < talk in human language better than many a parrot — Morris Gilbert > < most hard-of-hearing people … talk very loud — Eleanor B. Simmons > < this is a microphone … you talk straight into it — Jane Woodfin > b. < all the while she talked, saying trivial, idiotic things — Louis Bromfield > < foolish and perverse, banal, intolerably talking on and on — H.O.Taylor > < and Congress talked — Economist > c. < now you're talking > : carry weight < money talks > 3. a. < she does not talk about others behind their backs > b. < he talked and revealed much valuable information to the F.B.I. — J.M.Wolfe > < cash-on-the-side payments … are oftentimes difficult to ascertain unless the buyer talks — M.B.Clinard > 4. < he talks on the radio and to community groups > Synonyms: see speak • - talk at - talk big - talk of - talk one's head off - talk one's way - talk sense - talk through one's hat - talk to - talk to death II. 1. a. < an opportunity to … enjoy a bit of talk — Margaret Jones > < asked the question … with apparent intention only of keeping talk going — Gilbert Parker > b. < expects to have a long talk with his old friend > < stops to have talks with people he knows > 2. a. < writers … whose ear for the vernacular is so accurate that they can bring a whole stratum of society to life by the talk of their characters — Amy Loveman > < it is difficult to understand them because of their strange talk > b. < meeting produced little but talk — Time > < a man who has had his dinner is never a revolutionist: his politics are all talk — G.B.Shaw > < the drowning of one's mental disturbances in brave talk — W.J.Reilly > 3. < latest bid for Big Four talks on a … peace treaty — Current History > < sent word to … come in for talks at Fort King — Marjory S. Douglas > 4. a. < much talk of the atomic bomb — C.G.McAleer > < talk of acquiring a large amount of surplus war material — A.H.Lybyer > < all the talk we hear about quality being adversely affected — Bruce Payne > b. < only telling you the talk in our neighborhood — Mary R. Rinehart > < a lot too much talk going on — S.H.Adams > 5. < it was the talk not only of the town but of the country — Edward Bok > < by evening of that day the project had become the talk … of the whole community — L.B.Salomon > < a pert young daughter … whose adventures were common talk — L.C.Douglas > 6. a. < at the first American Writers' Congress … he gave a talk on “The Tradition of American Literature” — C.I.Glicksberg > < broadcasts a weekly inspirational talk called “The Art of Living” — Bernard Kalb > b. < here is timeless old England … given in such lists and such talk as only this writer can command — New York Herald Tribune Book Review > < wrote a book called Talks to Teachers > 7. < heard a scuffle and then a good deal of pheasant talk up a hill among some huge boulders — Dillon Ripley > < lake ships use a whistle talk that consists of 450 different signals — H.F.Unger > < occasional slang signs with which a deaf person … intersperses his talk — J.S.Long > |
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