Good conversation is alive; good conversation flows with energy between the conversationalists. 好的交流是生动的;谈话者之间充满了活力。
Even the very best conversationalists would have trouble keeping a conversation going. 即使是最健谈的人也会遇到谈话不能继续的情形。
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, a Latvian-born Oxford philosopher who died in 1997, may well have ranked among the greatest conversationalists who ever lived. 出生于拉脱维亚,辞世于1997年的牛津哲学家IsaiahBerlin爵士足可跻身于世间曾有的最伟大的健谈人士之列。
( Sure, the stuffies might not be the greatest conversationalists, but they have to be better listeners than your last date.) (当然,这些公仔可能不是最棒的唠嗑伙伴,但是同你上一个伙伴相比,公仔们肯定是个更好的听众。)
A short list of the greatest living conversationalists in English would probably have to include Christopher Hitchens, Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, Sir Tom Stoppard, Studs Terkel and Gore Vidal. 如果拉出一个尚且健存在世的最伟大的英语健谈家的简短名单话,大概一定要囊括上ChristopherHitchens,PatrickLeighFermor爵士,TomStoppard爵士,StudsTerkel和GoreVidal这几位了。
Some are automated to speak preprogrammed phrases under certain conditions, but their limited intelligence does not make them the greatest conversationalists. 它们能明白一些事先预设的话,但它们有限的智能使他们无法明白较多的话。
I've prepared a number of topics that should appeal to both the advanced and novice conversationalists. 我已备好若干话题,既能吸引高手侃侃而谈,又能迎合菜鸟的口味爱好。
The conversationalists in the intercultural communication usually come from different countries. They inherit different traditional culture and education, and develop different ideas about values, beliefs, opinions, and forms of discourse. 在跨文化交际中,由于双方来自不同国家,接受不同传统文化的教育,因而具有不同的价值观念、信仰、见解和语篇形式。
Conversational analysis is designed to study structural characteristics in a conversation so as to reveal the relationship between conversationalists and the position they are set. 会话分析通过研究会话中的结构特点来揭示说话者之间的关系和所处的地位。