schmooze
发音
英 [ʃmu:z]
美 [ʃmuz]
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- n.& vi.
- 闲谈
- 拍马屁，扯关系
- 扯皮，搬弄是非
单词词源
schmooze 闲聊
来自依地语 shmues,闲聊，来自希伯来语 shemu'oth,谣言，传闻，来自 shamua,听到的，听闻 的，来自 shama',去听，听见，词源同人名 Simon,西蒙，字面意思为倾听。
双语例句
- 1. People come to fundraising dinners to help the cause and schmooze with other like-minded people .
- 人们去参加一个募捐晚宴去帮助共同的目标并且和其他一样想法的人们闲谈。
- 2. An easy read , reality check is made up of 94 short , entertaining , and tip-filled chapters on everything from how to schmooze to how to suck up to a blogger .
- 作为一本简易读物，realitycheck（书名）由94个短小的，有趣的，各章节充满提示的故事组成，内容涉及到从如何闲谈到怎样去笼络一个博客主。
- 3. Who should arrive in their roller to break up the schmooze , but prince charles and camilla who had been planning to greet obama and his wife at stansted , had volcanic ash not intervened on the flightplan .
- 除了查尔斯王子和卡米拉，还有谁会坐着豪车去打断别人的闲谈呢？他们本来计划去机场迎接总统夫妇的，如果火山灰不添乱的话。