talking
present participle oftalk
| 单词 | talking |
| 释义 | talking present participle oftalk talk verb[I] uk/tɔːk/us/tɑːk/talkverb[I](SAY WORDS)A1 to say wordsaloud; tospeakto someone: We were just talkingaboutGareth's newgirlfriend. My littlegirlhas juststartedto talk. She talkstohermotheron thephoneeveryweek. to talk to someone
to talk about something
Informal talking & conversation
talkverb[I](DISCUSS)B2 todiscusssomething with someone, often totrytofindasolutionto adisagreement: The twosideshaveagreedto talk. talk business, politics, etc. C1 todiscussaparticularsubject: Whenever they're together, they talkpolitics. Debate & discussion
talkverb[I](LECTURE)B2 to give alectureon asubject: The nextspeakerwill be talking aboutendangeredinsects. Lecturing & addressing
GrammarSpeakortalk? The verbs speak and talk both generally mean ‘say words’, but there are some small differences in how they are used. Speak is more formal than talk.…Speakandtalk: uses The verbs speak and talk both generally mean ‘say words’, but there are some small differences in how they are used. Speak is more formal than talk.…Speakandtalkwith prepositions We usually use to after speak and talk. In more formal situations, people sometimes use with:…Idiomsbe like talking to a brick wall givesomeonesomething to talk about look who's talking! talksomeone'shead off talk a blue streak talk about... talk dirty talk nonsense talk sense talk shop talk some sense into sb talk smack talk the hind leg(s) off a donkey talk the talk talk the talk ... walk the walk talk throughyourhat talk tough talk turkey talk your way out ofsomething talking ofsomeone/something Phrasal verbstalk aboutsomething/doingsomething talk atsomeone talk aroundsomething talk back talksomethingdown talksomeonedown talk down tosomeone talksomeoneintosomething talksomethingout talksomeoneout ofsomething talksomethingover talksomeoneround talksomethingthrough talksomethingup Examplesoftalkingtalking In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. But these ways oftalkingabout accounting were at best symbolic. From theCambridge English Corpus Grad students spent most of their timetalkingto each other about issues that interested them or the faculty. From theCambridge English Corpus These groups are more useful whentalkingabout the cases than when using them. From theCambridge English Corpus We had better be prepared to tell him, and to know what we aretalkingabout when we do so. From theCambridge English Corpus I decided at that point (we had beentalkingfor at least an hour with no resolution) to introduce another perspective. From theCambridge English Corpus I think so, but we aretalkingabout quite different aspects of scientific behaviour. From theCambridge English Corpus They might be eating,talking, whistling, humming, smoking during the most dramatic scenes. From theCambridge English Corpus Its great virtues remain its clarity of exposition and argument, and the authority of the author, who knows what he istalkingabout. From theCambridge English Corpus The 'talkingup' of the neolithic transition has probably more to do with political and funding agendas of academic research than with neolithisation itself. From theCambridge English Corpus But intalkingabout secondary unions the voice changes. From theCambridge English Corpus The activities were ranked in the following order: playing instruments, movement/dance, singing, listening to music, composing andtalkingabout music. From theCambridge English Corpus It purports to be the correct theory of the nature of the ethical wrongness that everybody (or almost everybody) istalkingabout. From theCambridge English Corpus It will prove an invaluable reference book to studentstalkingenvironmental courses, and should find a place in all larger geological and zoological libraries. From theCambridge English Corpus The manner oftalkingabout vocal qualities is learned from one's teacher. From theCambridge English Corpus For the first time competingtalkingmachines might appear together in a music store ad. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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