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talker

/tawk/US // tɔk //UK // (tɔːk) //

谈话者,说话者,说话的人,说话人

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    • : to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
    • : to consult or confer: Talk with your adviser.
    • : to spread a rumor or tell a confidence; gossip.
    • : to chatter or prate.
    • : to employ speech; perform the act of speaking: to talk very softly; to talk into a microphone.
    • : to deliver a speech, lecture, etc.: The professor talked on the uses of comedy in the tragedies of Shakespeare.
    • : to give or reveal confidential or incriminating information: After a long interrogation, the spy finally talked.
    • : to communicate ideas by means other than speech, as by writing, signs, or signals.
    • : Computers. to transmit data, as between computers or between a computer and a terminal.
    • : to make sounds imitative or suggestive of speech.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to express in words; utter: to talk sense.
    • : to use in speaking or conversing: They talk French together for practice.
    • : to discuss: to talk politics.
    • : Informal. to focus on; signify or mean; talk about: This isn't a question of a few hundred dollars—we're talking serious money.
    • : to bring, put, drive, influence, etc., by talk: to talk a person to sleep; to talk a person into doing something.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of talking; speech; conversation, especially of a familiar or informal kind.
    • : an informal speech or lecture.
    • : a conference or negotiating session: peace talks.
    • : report or rumor; gossip: There is a lot of talk going around about her.
    • : a subject or occasion of talking, especially of gossip: Your wild escapades are the talk of the neighborhood.
    • : mere empty speech: That's just a lot of talk.
    • : a way of talking: a halting, lisping talk.
    • : language, dialect, or lingo.
    • : signs or sounds imitative or suggestive of speech, as the noise made by loose parts in a mechanism.
  1. 1
    • : talk around, to bring over to one's way of thinking; persuade: She sounded adamant over the phone, but I may still be able to talk her around.
    • : talk at, to talk to in a manner that indicates that a response is not expected or wanted.to direct remarks meant for one person to another person present; speak indirectly to.
    • : talk away, to spend or consume in talking: We talked away the tedious hours in the hospital.
    • : talk back, to reply to a command, request, etc., in a rude or disrespectful manner: Her father never allowed them to talk back.
    • : talk down, to overwhelm by force of argument or by loud and persistent talking; subdue by talking.to speak disparagingly of; belittle.Also talk in. to give instructions to by radio for a ground-controlled landing, especially to a pilot who is unable to make a conventional landing because of snow, fog, etc.
    • : talk down to, to speak condescendingly to; patronize: Children dislike adults who talk down to them.
    • : talk of, to debate as a possibility; discuss: The two companies have been talking of a merger.
    • : talk out, to talk until conversation is exhausted.to attempt to reach a settlement or understanding by discussion: We arrived at a compromise by talking out the problem.British Politics.to thwart the passage of by prolonging discussion until the session of Parliament adjourns.Compare filibuster.
    • : talk over, to weigh in conversation; consider; discuss.to cause to change an opinion; convince by talking: He became an expert at talking people over to his views.
    • : talk up, to promote interest in; discuss enthusiastically.to speak without hesitation; speak distinctly and openly: If you don't talk up now, you may not get another chance.

Phrases

  • talk around
  • talk at
  • talk back
  • talk big
  • talk dirty
  • talk down
  • talk down to
  • talked out
  • talk into
  • talk of the town, the
  • talk out
  • talk out of
  • talk over
  • talk sense
  • talk shop
  • talk someone's arm off
  • talk through one's hat
  • talk to
  • talk turkey
  • talk up
  • all talk
  • dirty joke (talk dirty)
  • double talk
  • heart to heart (talk)
  • look who's talking
  • money talks
  • now you're talking
  • small talk
  • straight talk
  • sweet talk

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • LinkedIn said it is in talks with the Media Ratings Council to audit its ad measurement metrics and with Moat for viewability measurement.

  • NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine mentioned in June that Axiom was involved in those talks.

  • The plan, proposed earlier this year, set a goal of getting down to a few hundred troops by May 2021, assuming the peace talks moved forward and conditions on the battlefield allowed for it.

  • We had Ashley apologize to her aunt and also had many good talks about bullying and sensitivity.

  • There was talk of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and a pardon that was sure to come, and a truth that would finally be revealed.

  • Picasso, that volcanic talker, filled volumes with his anecdotes, aphorisms, and witticisms.

  • Elected Republicans, usually loathe to offend the influential talker, distanced themselves from his comments.

  • Syndicated radio talker Mark Levin calls him “Plugs” because he appears to have had hair transplants.

  • Other terms for Santorum: “religious,” “sanctimonious,” and “God-talker.”

  • Last night radio talker Mark Levin upbraided Ann Coulter for her column endorsing Romneycare.

  • And hand-painting it allus seemed to me, is really elocution in oils; for a be-yutiful picture is a silent talker.

  • She says if he'd cut 'em off and look more like other men she'd be real proud of him, he's such a good talker.

  • With her self-depreciation she was one thing that she was not likely to guessthe prettiest talker in the world.

  • What a capital talker he was at the social board, and how ready to join in harmless merriment!

  • Tessa, began Dine abruptly as they were brushing their hair at bedtime, isnt Gus a fine talker?