| 词汇 | talk around/round |
| 释义 | talk around/roundtalk around/round phrasal verbphr v British EnglishBrE a) talk somebody around/roundPERSUADE to persuade someone to change their opinion about something 说服某人改变主意 Leave Betty to me. I’ll soon talk her round. 把贝蒂交给我吧。我会很快让她改变主意的。 b) talk around/round somethingDISCUSS to discuss a problem without really dealing with the important parts of it 不着边际[不得要领]地谈某事 They had spent half the night talking round the subject. 他们大半个晚上都在不着边际地谈论这个话题。 Examples from the Corpus talk around/round• Get people talking round a subject.• We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.• Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.• He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.• In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.• Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?• We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject. talk around/round something• Get people talking round a subject.• We talk round all these factors and eventually that tends to work towards a particular player.• Robyn listened helplessly as they talked around and about her and remembered.• He had never heard Alex talk around dope before.• In the early days I remember we could spend an hour talking round one position.• It was the talk around the base.• Why was she conspiring with him to talk around the subject rather than come to the point?• We must have spent at least five minutes talking round the subject. → talk around/round at talk1(PHRASAL VERB) |
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