chitchat

英 [ˈtʃɪttʃæt]

美 [ˈtʃɪtˌtʃæt]

n.  闲聊; 聊天
vi.  闲谈

现在分词：chitchatting　过去式：chitchatted　第三人称单数：chitchats　过去分词：chitchatted　

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柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 闲聊;聊天
  Chit-chatis 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。

英英释义

noun

• light informal conversation for social occasions
  Synonym:chit-chatchit chatsmall talkgabgabfestgossiptittle-tattlechin wagchin-wagchin waggingchin-waggingcauserie

verb

• 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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• I like to chitchat with my friends on phone.
  我喜欢用电话与我的朋友们聊聊天。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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」。