chitchat

1. N-UNCOUNT 闲聊;聊天
   Chit-chat is informal talk about things that are not very important.
   1. Not being a mother, I found the chit-chat exceedingly dull.
      我没当母亲，所以觉得那样的闲谈无聊透顶。

1. During a lunch break, he and the buyer passed the time with some chitchat.
   午饭休息时间，他与顾客谈天闲聊以消磨时间。
2. I met him the other day on the street, and had the usual chitchat about paris.
   不久前的一天，我在街上碰到他，像往常一样闲聊了一会儿有关巴黎的情况。
3. EXAMPLE: I am bored by the chitchat at our company parties, so I usually leave early.
   公司聚会上的闲言碎语让我心烦，所以我通常早早离开。
4. EXAMPLE: My sisters and I like to chitchat on the phone after work.
   姐姐和我喜欢在下班后用电话闲聊。
5. Painful chitchat on a train is one thing, but workplace TMI is its own monster.
   在火车上痛苦的闲聊是一回事，工作上的TMI却是个可怕怪兽。
6. Work relationships are not governed by the same rules as friendships, so do not feel bad if your colleagues do not want to chitchat or are not particularly warm towards you, said Zhang.
   工作关系与朋友关系，处事原则各不相同。所以，如果同事不愿跟你聊天或者并没有特别热情地带你，请不要沮丧。
7. Chances are, neither of you wants to get bogged down in endless chitchat.
   你们两人肯定都不想陷入没完没了的闲谈中。
8. Too many young workers have harmed their own careers by focusing on chitchat over work, or by deciding to dislike the boss just because a coworker does.
   随意评论工作中的人与事已经毁了太多年轻员工的职业生涯。因为同事不喜欢老板，所以自己也决定不喜欢，这样做法也同样不可取。
9. In practicing, you have to try not to have gaps: make movements continuously and develop awareness continuously, know with awareness all the time, don't talk and chitchat a lot.
   修习时，你必须努力持续不断：不停地动以及持续地培养觉性，随时用觉性去感知，不要多说话及聊天。
10. Not even the most dedicated person is immune to the temptation of occasional chitchat.
    即使是最专注的人也禁不起偶尔聊天的诱惑。
11. My father tried to make pleasant chitchat and eat as much as he could during halftime.
    我父亲在中场休息时尽量聊些愉快的事儿并尽可能多吃东西。
12. She angled her column of chitchat towards teen-agers.
    她的闲话专栏着眼于青少年。
13. The Judge was not one for small talk, hated gossip and idle chitchat, whether written or a spoken.
    不管是写信，还是言谈，法官都不是个喜欢说闲话，他讨厌流言蜚语和琐碎的乱侃。
14. He talks about you nine times out of ten when we have a chitchat.
    每次我们闲聊他几乎都谈及你。
15. There'll be plenty of time to chitchat once we get back to the village.
    一旦我们回到村庄我们将会有很多时间去闲谈。
16. Enough of the chitchat. where's the girl?
    说够了吧。那女的去哪里了？
17. He shook hands without rising, and made pointless chitchat.
    他握手的时候并不起身，所说的也是一些不着边际的寒喧话。
18. The Internet has become the21st century's answer to word of mouth or over-the-garden-fence chitchat, so I think it's wise to keep tabs on what is said about me in cyberspace.
    网络正成为21世纪的答案，代替口耳相传或者是邻里之间的口碑，因此我想去看看在网络空间中是怎样描述我的。
19. Time spent on Facebook, however, is not just idle chitchat between friends, because the architecture of the place lends itself so easily to voyeurism and exhibitionism.
    不过，在Facebook度过的时间，不仅仅是朋友间的闲聊，因为该网站的结构可以轻松地被窥淫癖和暴露癖者利用。
20. The elderly at home together in twos and threes strip beans, wash vegetables and chitchat about the past, see the leaves carved by the traces of the years drift downstream.
    家中的老人三三两两聚在一起，剥豆子，洗蔬菜，拉拉家常叙叙往事，看岁月的痕迹刻在落叶上顺水而去。
21. Her essays appear every Friday in "Drilling Platform" of Miri Daily, and in other columns like "Chitchat" and "Long and Short".
    每周五在美里日报「钻油台」专栏执笔，另有专栏「闲话」与「长短说」。
22. The figure is good, have self-confident heart, others also likes to interact with your chitchat.
    身材好了，有自信心，别人也喜欢与你攀谈交往。
23. A day giraffe with how many the kangaroos in the chitchat," you see, can these people continue again to add high your cage sons?" the giraffe asks.
    一天长颈鹿和几只袋鼠们在闲聊，“你们看，这些人会不会再继续加高你们的笼子？”长颈鹿问。
24. The members were enjoying a bit of chitchat when the gavel sounded.
    大家正在闲聊的时候，主席的槌响了。
25. I like to chitchat with my friends on phone.
    我喜欢用电话与我的朋友们聊聊天。
26. After a few minutes of chitchat, Boris himself raised a very personal issue.
    闲聊几分钟后，Boris自己谈起了一个十分私人的问题。
27. Gerstner isn't one for chitchat& or the finer points of corporate etiquette. Pats on the back aren't his style, either.
    Gerstner不是一个闲谈的人，也不是一个公众礼节完善的人，轻拍后背也不是他的风格。
28. With such meaty topics to discuss, there is little time for chitchat.
    由于要讨论的话题如此之多，我们没有多少时间闲聊。

noun

1. light informal conversation for social occasions

   Synonym:    chit-chatchit chatsmall talkgabgabfestgossiptittle-tattlechin wagchin-wagchin waggingchin-waggingcauserie

verb

1. talk socially without exchanging too much information
   1. the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

   Synonym:    chew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchit-chatchatterchaffernattergossipjawclavervisit