不说话

I had an earache and, besides that, couldn't speak well.

我耳朵有点痛而且说话不流畅。

"You are about very early," said a voice, the owner of which Easton could not see.

"你这么早就出来活动了，"一个声音传来，伊斯顿却看不清楚说话的人是谁。

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

你我的性格跟人家都不大合得来，又不愿意多说话，难得开口，除非想说几句一鸣惊人的话，让大家当作格言来流传千古。

When I talk, it isn't always easy for others to get a word in edgeways.

在我说话时，别人总是插不上嘴。

Jean is really a talkative girl. She didn't even let me get a word in edgewise.

珍真是个爱说话的女孩，她甚至不让我有插话的机会

Have you ever been in a team where people over you or won't let you get a word in edgewise?

在团队中，是否曾有人压制过你，或不让你有说话的余地？

The Elocutionist —one who talks for display rather than communication.

口若悬河型——说话不为交流只图卖弄。

She wanted to talk, but there seemed an embargo on every subject.

她想要说话，可是什么话都想不起来。

Keeping a stone face will not endear you to speakers who wonder if you are listening to them.

如果你面无表情，你不会拉进与说话者的距离，他们不知你是否在听他们讲话。

When we talk to Englishmen we can't express ourselves with great accuracy and fluency.

当我们和我们用棒的准确性和流畅不能表达我们自己的英国人说话的时候。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。