0 (a) talk between two or more people in which thoughts, feelings, and ideas are expressed, questions are asked and answered, or news and information is exchanged -- 交談,談話,對話
She had a strange conversation with the man who moved in upstairs. 她跟搬到樓上的那個傢夥進行了一次奇怪的交談。
It's impossible to hold/carry on a conversation with all this noise going on! 周圍這麽吵根本無法談話!
I struck up (= started) an interesting conversation with your uncle. 我跟你叔叔挺有興趣地攀談起來。
Because of television, many people have lost the art of conversation (= talking to each other). 由於電視的緣故,許多人變得不善於與他人交談了。
Whenever I'm in a social situation with my boss, we seem to run out of conversation (= things to say to each other) after two minutes! 每次在社交場合跟老闆在一起,兩分鐘過後我們好像就無話可說了。
There are certain topics of conversation that are not suitable for polite society.
She completely monopolized the conversation at lunch.
Brother Michael and Brother John were deep in conversation.
I wish Dad would stop listening in on my phone conversations.
To the extent that conversations are implicitly expected or planned to co-occur with dinners, coffee breaks, or other scheduled activities, they are also temporally constrained.
In comparison to ordinary conversations, less common words are employed in both informational and narrative texts.
Clarification requests play an important role in effective conversations, and children must learn the conversational rules for interpreting and responding to such requests.