conversation
n. 交谈,谈话
If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
He's a talkative guy, and I struck up a conversation with him...
他是一个健谈的人,于是我开始和他攀谈起来。
I waited for her to finish a telephone conversation.
我等着她打完电话。
If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
When I arrived I found her in conversation with Mrs Williams.
我到的时候,发现她正在和威廉斯夫人谈话。
If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
He had been trying to make conversation.
他一直在尽量找话说。
1. the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
conversation, dialogue, talk, chat
这些名词均含"交谈"之意。
make conversation
寒暄;说应酬话
She steered the conversation to more general topics.
她把谈话引向更为一般性的话题.
She sat silently, flinging the odd word into the conversation from time to time.
她静静地坐着, 在谈话过程中不时插上一两句话.
A chance conversation led to a brilliant new career for the young catering student.
一次偶然的谈话让这名年轻的餐饮业学生进入了一个前景一片光明的新职业.
Someone has been listening in to our telephone conversation.
有人一直在窃听我们的电话谈话.
The weather is a stock topic of conversation.
天气是老一套的话题.