palaver
发音
英 [pəˈlɑ:və(r)]
美 [pəˈlævɚ, -ˈlɑvɚ]
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- n.
- <口>废话，空话
单词词源
palaver 琐事，忙乱，废话
水手航海俚语，来自葡萄牙语palavra,说话，谈话，与土著人的谈判，来自拉丁语parabola,比较，谈话，谈判，词源同parable,parlance.后引申词义琐事，废话。
双语例句
- 1. We don \'t want all that palaver , do we ?
- 我们不想那样小题大做，不是吗？
- 2. With all the palaver these days about personal branding and blowing your own horn as essential career survival skills , it \' s easy to see why this situation would make you uneasy .
- 现在，许多人都认为打造个人品牌和自吹自擂是职场生存的秘笈，所以，你才会对目前的情况感到不安，这很容易理解。
- 3. What a palaver there was about paying the bill !
- 付帐的事真费口舌呀！
- 4. What a palaver there was about paying the bill !
- 付帐的事真费口舌啊！
- 5. Even so , the equipment-makers argue that , though doable , all this sensing palaver makes white-space devices needlessly complicated and expensive .
- 但即便如此，这种设备的制造商表示，尽管技术上可行，但整个侦测过程异常繁琐，导致空白频段装置复杂昂贵，没必要。