闲聊

They were all walking single file, each one with a pole and two baskets. They stretched for over two miles in procession. I was half and hour passing them …everyone behind seemed to be yabbering to his mate in front in a sing-song tone.

他们排成一排行走，每个人担着扁担和2个箩筐，队伍有2里路长，我用了半个小时才走过了他们…每个人似乎都在和后面的同伴用像唱歌似的音调闲聊。

To sceptics all this talk of twittering, yammering and chattering smacks of another internet bubble in the making.

对于那些一直在叽叽喳喳谈论，抱怨和闲聊着这些社交网络的怀疑论者，他们认为这不过是另一个因特网泡沫。

As described by Richard Steele in a1709Tatler, a pair of young blades had paused by one of that city＇s public baths to admire a celebrated beauty bathing therein.

如理查德·斯蒂尔在1709年的一期《闲聊者》杂志中所描绘的，两个花花公子在该市一个公共泳池前停了下来，以便瞻仰在其中游泳的一位&名媛&的芳容。

A few days ago, one of my colleagues chatted with me about child rearing.

杂谈 前段时间，有个同事和我闲聊，说到育儿。

Whether the normally affable Mr Clinton managed to stay poker-faced through the three hours and 15 minutes he and Mr Kim spent in each other's company (long enough, even with translation, for a chin-wag), his aides are not saying.

他和金先生在一起谈了3小时15分钟（即便加上翻译时间，对于一次闲聊来说，这段时间也够长的了）。平日里和蔼可亲的克林顿先生，这么长时间是否一直板着一副扑克牌似的脸硬撑着，他的助手们没说。

Whether the normally affable Mr Clinton managed to stay poker-faced through the three hours and 15 minutes he and Mr Kim spent in each other's company (long enough, even with translation, for a chin-wag), his aides are not saying.

往日里平易近人的克林顿，究竟在和金正日单独会见的15分钟里是不是也一直都面无表情呢（即使算上翻译的时间，这段时间也够他们闲聊一会的了）？

Wrote a column about the ball game. Took crap from Sebastian about it.

写了篇关于棒球赛的专刊和塞巴斯蒂安闲聊

They spent the whole day shooting the breeze.

他们一整天都在闲聊。

But while it lies beyond our power to make this chatter suddenly disappear, what we can do is to detach ourselves from it by 'binding' our ever-active mind 'with one thought, or the thought of One only'— the Name of Jesus.

要使这些&闲聊&突然消失是超越我们能力的，我们所能做的就是将我们的思维与它分开，专注於&一个思想，或对唯一者的思想&也即耶稣的圣名。

I talked to some of the patrons who shared their thoughts and feelings about the bushfire disaster which reminded us that life was not under our control.

在卖物会当天，有路人走过，买了几件物品，也和我们闲聊起来，分享了一些对林火的感受，彼此提醒生命的不可掌握。

Neither the killing of Mr Zarqawi nor any breakthrough on the political front will stop the insurgency and the fratricidal murders in their tracks.

在对危险的南部地区访问时，他斥责什叶派民兵领导人对中央集权的挑衅行为。

In fact,I've got him on the satellite mobile right now.

实际上 我们已接通卫星可视电话了