闲聊

Veterans of the annual gathering said it was the cheeriest they could recall.

参加今年年度峰会的老资格们表示，这是他们所能够回想起的最令人高兴的一次聚众闲聊。

He told me he had a chinwag with Dave the other day.

他告诉我他前几天跟戴夫一块闲聊来着。

And for the next sixty-eight days, I worked to pass the program, bringing legislators to my office; going to their committee hearings to argue personally for bills; cornering them in the halls, at nighttime events, or early in the morning at the Capitol cafeteria; hanging around with them outside the chambers or in the cloakrooms; calling them late at night; and bringing opposing legislators and their allied lobbyists together to hammer out compromises.

在接下来的68天里，我对议员们做工作，以确保这项计划能顺利通过，采取的方式多种多样：把议员们请到我的办公室；参加他们所在委员会的听证会，从个人的立场提出为什么要支持这个法案；夜间举行活动时或清晨在议会大厦自助餐厅里逼着他们表态；与他们一起在议事厅外或衣帽间厮混、闲聊；在深晚时，给他们打电话；把反对方的议员和支持他们的游说人士叫到一起认真研究折衷方案。

He said that the first thing macho, no-time-for-nonsense cosmonauts did after floating out of bed in the Soviet skylab was to tend their tiny pea seedling "experiments."

他说，第一件事macho，在苏联的太空实验室，没空闲聊的宇航员在起床后就会照看小小的豌豆苗&实验&。

Be more to the point with introverts, and save most of your chatting for extraverts who will appreciate it more.

和内向的人交谈一定要突出重点，而闲聊就留给性格外向的聊天对象吧，这样大家都开心。

We chatted about the ppera which was to have its first-night performance next week.

我们闲聊了下周将举行的晚场首演的歌剧。

We chatted about the Russian ballet which was to give its first-night performance next week.

我们闲聊了下周将举行的晚场首演的俄国芭蕾舞剧团。

Irresistibly drawn by the scent of food, Simon moved near to the gaffers and gossips who were spreading cloths and laying supper by the stone wall behind the little church.

不由自主地被食物的香味吸引着，Simon走近了老人们，和闲聊着的那些人中间，这些人，靠*近这小小教堂的石砌的后墙，铺起了布，摆出了晚餐。

Brother or parent, or wife and children, or 35 friends, pour a glass of wine, brew pot of tea, chat Talk, enjoyable.

或父母兄弟，或妻子儿女，或三五好友，倒杯酒，沏壶茶，闲聊漫谈，其乐融融。

Barry McRoy, a South Carolina fire and rescue director, was leaving a Waffle House restaurant when two men came in fighting over a gun.

巴里·麦克罗伊是一位南加利福尼亚州的火灾和营救主管，当他离开&闲聊屋&旅店的时候正好碰上两个人在枪战。

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