核心畫面
You can picture talk as one mouth turned toward another: words go out of you and into someone, and theirs come back. It is speech aimed at a person, not just sound in the air. Everything else — a serious discussion, a public lecture, a passing round town, dozens of fixed phrases — is this same act of saying things to someone, narrowed by who you talk to, why, and how.
可以想成一張嘴對著另一張嘴：你把話送出去，送進別人耳裡，他的話再送回來。talk 的核心畫面比較像「對著人說話」，不…更多收起
可以想成一張嘴對著另一張嘴：你把話送出去，送進別人耳裡，他的話再送回來。talk 的核心畫面比較像「對著人說話」，不是空氣裡的聲音而已，而是有來有往的開口交流。後面所有的意思——正經的商量、上台的演講、滿城流傳的傳聞、還有幾十個固定說法——都是這同一個「對人說話」的動作，只是換了對象、換了目的、換了方式。原始詞典資料17 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
talkverb詞源 1/tɔːk/
- 1
To communicate, usually by means of speech.
- Let's sit down and talk.
- Although I don't speak Chinese, I managed to talk with the villagers using signs and gestures.
- 2
informalTo discuss; to talk about.
- They sat down to talk business.
- That's enough about work, let's talk holidays!
- 3
To speak (a certain language).
- We talk French sometimes.
- 4
informalUsed to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.
- Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.
- We're not talking rocket science here: it should be easy.
- 5
slangTo confess, especially implicating others.
- Suppose he talks?
- She can be relied upon not to talk.
- 6
To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
- I am not the one to talk.
- She is a fine one to talk.
- 7
To gossip; to create scandal.
- People will talk.
- Aren't you afraid the neighbours will talk?
- 8
To manifest outwardly in speech, as opposed to reality or action.
- Remember that Christ and Christianity may not always be the same thing; e.g. Jerry Falwell talks "Christianity" but practices hatred […] which is diametrically opposed to what Jesus really taught.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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informalTo influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.
- That's not like you at all, Jared. The drugs are talking. Snap out of it!
- "So, are you going to give up all this good living and easy money and come fly for the Russians?" "Hello no. I told you that yesterday." "That was your wallet talking. The shooting has started. Now I appeal to your patriotism, your manhood, your sense of duty."
talknoun詞源 2/tɔːk/
- 1
A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
- We need to have a talk about your homework.
- All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill.[…]Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connection—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.
- 2
A lecture.
- There is a talk on Shakespeare tonight.
- 3
Gossip; rumour.
- There's been talk lately about the two of them.
- 4
A major topic of social discussion.
- She is the talk of the day.
- The musical is the talk of the town.
- 5
A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular:
- Have you had the talk with Jay yet? I found a condom in his room.
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A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenage) child about a reality of life; in particular:
- Later, I made sure to have the talk with my son about being a black boy, […]
- All the black parents I have ever spoken to have had “the talk” with their sons and daughters. “The talk” is a conversation about how to behave and not to behave with police.
- 7
Empty boasting, promises or claims.
- The party leader's speech was all talk.
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Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
- The leaders of the G8 nations are currently in talks over nuclear weapons.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。