conversation
n. 交談,談話
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...
他是一個健談的人,於是我開始和他攀談起來。
I waited for her to finish a telephone conversation.
我等著她打完電話。
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.
我到的時候,發現她正在和威廉斯夫人談話。
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.
他一直在儘量找話說。
1. the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.
conversation, dialogue, talk, chat
這些名詞均含"交談"之意。
make conversation
寒暄;說應酬話
She steered the conversation to more general topics.
她把談話引向更為一般性的話題.
She sat silently, flinging the odd word into the conversation from time to time.
她靜靜地坐著, 在談話過程中不時插上一兩句話.
A chance conversation led to a brilliant new career for the young catering student.
一次偶然的談話讓這名年輕的餐飲業學生進入了一個前景一片光明的新職業.
Someone has been listening in to our telephone conversation.
有人一直在竊聽我們的電話談話.
The weather is a stock topic of conversation.
天氣是老一套的話題.