palaver

      英 [p?'lɑ?v?] 美[p?'lɑv?]
      • n. 談判,交涉;奉承
      • vi. 嘮叨;空談;奉承,拍馬
      • vt. 奉承

      GRE暢通詞匯

      詞態變化


      復數:?palavers;

      中文詞源


      palaver 瑣事,忙亂,廢話

      水手航海俚語,來自葡萄牙語palavra,說話,談話,與土著人的談判,來自拉丁語parabola,比較,談話,談判,詞源同parable,parlance.后引申詞義瑣事,廢話。

      英文詞源


      palaver
      palaver: [18] Palaver originated as a piece of naval slang picked up by English sailors in Africa. There they came across Portuguese traders negotiating with the local inhabitants, a process known in Portuguese as palavra ‘speech’ (a descendant of Latin parabola, source of English parable). They took the Portugese word over as palaver, applying it first to ‘negotiations’, and then by extension to ‘idle chatter’.
      => parable
      palaver (n.)
      1733 (implied in palavering), "talk, conference, discussion," sailors' slang, from Portuguese palavra "word, speech, talk," traders' term for "negotiating with the natives" in West Africa, metathesis of Late Latin parabola "speech, discourse," from Latin parabola "comparison" (see parable). Meaning "idle talk" first recorded 1748. The verb is 1733, from the noun. Related: Palavering.

      雙語例句


      1. We don't want all that palaver, do we?
      我們不想那樣小題大做,不是嗎?

      來自柯林斯例句

      2. What's all the palaver about?
      這些雞毛蒜皮的事到底是為什么?

      來自《權威詞典》

      3. What a palaver there was about paying the bill !
      付賬的事真費口舌呀!

      來自辭典例句

      4. What a palaver there was about paying the bill!
      付賬的事真費口舌呀!

      來自互聯網

      5. However, another fascinating question, hitherto absent from the current palaver, may prove more tractable.
      然而, 另一個至今都沒人談論到的,更吸引人的問題, 或許更容易找到答案.

      來自互聯網

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