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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Enough of the chitchat. where's the girl?
  说够了吧。那女的去哪里了？
• 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」。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• She angled her column of chitchat towards teen-agers.
  她的闲话专栏着眼于青少年。