conversation

noun

1. （非正式）交谈，谈话
   an informal talk involving a small group of people or only two; the activity of talking in this way
   1. a telephone conversation
      电话交谈
   2. I had a long conversation with her the other day.
      前几天我与她作了一次长谈。
   3. The main topic of conversation was the likely outcome of the election.
      谈话的主题是选举可能产生的结果。
   4. Don was deep in conversation with the girl on his right.
      唐与他右边的女孩在专心交谈。
   5. to get into conversation with sb
      开始与某人攀谈
   6. to get into a conversation with sb
      开始与某人攀谈
   7. The conversation turned to gardening.
      话题转到了园艺上。
   8. I tried to make conversation (= to speak in order to appear polite) .
      我设法找些话题。

1. N-COUNT 交谈;谈话;会话
   If you have a conversation with someone, you talk with them, usually in an informal situation.
   1. 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。
   2. I waited for her to finish a telephone conversation.
      我等着她打完电话。
2. PHRASE 正在谈话;正在交谈
   If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
   1. 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。
3. PHRASE 搭话;找话说;说应酬话
   If you make conversation, you talk to someone in order to be polite and not because you really want to.
   1. He had been trying to make conversation.
      他一直在尽量找话说。

1. When I arose from the chair, my father and Eleanor's father were in deep conversation
   当我从椅子上站起来时，我父亲和埃莉诺的父亲谈兴正浓。
2. 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。
3. I waited for her to finish a telephone conversation.
   我等着她打完电话。
4. 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。
5. He had been trying to make conversation.
   他一直在尽量找话说。
6. We struck up a conversation, in the course of which it emerged that he was a sailing man.
   我们聊了起来，在谈话过程中得知他是一名水手。
7. I follow the drift of her conversation.
   我明白她谈话的大意。
8. The conversation was drowned by the arrival of the taxi.
   到来的出租车的声音压过了谈话的声音。
9. They tried to engage him in conversation
   他们试图跟他交谈。
10. Over breakfast at my motel, I fell into conversation with the owner of a hardware shop.
    我在汽车旅店吃早饭时，和一位五金店的老板聊了起来。
11. While this conversation was going on, I was listening with earnest attention
    这场对话进行的时候，我聚精会神地听着。
12. They can't believe you can even hold a conversation.
    他们不敢相信你竟然能够把一场对话进行下去。
13. He hesitates before leaving, almost as though he had been hoping for conversation
    他离开前有些犹豫，几乎像是他一直期望能够交谈点什么。
14. I hate to interrupt your intimate conversation but we do have an assignment to discuss.
    我实在不愿打断你们的私人谈话，但是我们确实有事要谈。
15. After a while I led the conversation around to her job
    过了一阵子，我把话题引到她的工作上。
16. By the end of term, girls will have learnt the niceties of dinner party conversation
    到学期结束，女生们将完成对晚宴谈话礼仪细节的学习。
17. Pollard opened the conversation with some small talk.
    波拉德在寒暄中开始了谈话。
18. I heard various scraps of conversation over the dinner table.
    我在餐桌上听到各种只言片语的对话。
19. Alison and I had to prize conversation out of him.
    我和艾莉森只得从他口中撬出谈话内容。
20. He re-ran in his mind his conversation with Smith.
    他脑子里回顾了一遍他和史密斯的对话。
21. It provides perfect strangers with a ready-made and infinitely adaptable topic of conversation.
    它给完全陌生的人提供了一个方便灵活的聊天话题。
22. I heard snatches of the conversation.
    我听见了一点谈话内容。
23. We made polite, stilted conversation
    我们客套了一番。
24. The conversation around them was resumed, but in subdued tones.
    他们周围的人又开始交谈了，但这次是窃窃私语。
25. The conversation was tape-recorded and played in court.
    谈话被录了下来，并在法庭上播放。
26. I went over to start up a conversation, asking her who she knew at the party
    我凑过去搭讪，问她这个聚会上都认识谁。
27. None of them can carry out even the simplest conversation in the foreign language they have been learning.
    他们当中没有谁能用所学的外语进行即便（是）最简单的会话。
28. I'm learning English conversation.
    我正在学英语会话。
29. After she finished her conversation, she hung up.
    她谈完之后，把电话挂了。
30. The conversation was enlivened with jokes.
    笑话使谈话变得活泼。

  chat chatter conversation dialogue【导航词义：聊天，对话】

  chat n. 〈尤英〉闲谈，聊天

〔辨析〕普通用词，指熟人之间很随便的交谈，强调谈话的亲密性和非正式性。

  chatter n. 闲扯，唠叨

〔辨析〕尤指对无关紧要之事喋喋不休的谈论。

  conversation n. 谈话，交谈

〔辨析〕指人们相互之间交流信息、感情、思想等的非正式的交谈。

  dialogue n. 对话，对白

〔辨析〕指书、戏剧、电影中的对白，也可指两个组织、国家等之间的正式对话。

noun

1. the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.