palaver
音标发音
- 英式音标 [pəˈlɑː.vər]
- 美式音标 [pəˈlævɚ, -ˈlɑvɚ]
- 国际音标 [pə'lævə]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- n. 談判，交涉；奉承
- vi. 嘮叨；空談；奉承，拍馬
- vt. 奉承
词根记忆
- pala(ce)(宮殿) + aver(承認，說話)→宮殿裡的話→奉承
英汉例句
- 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.
現在，許多人都認爲打造個人品牌和自吹自擂是職場生存的秘笈，所以，你才會對目前的情況感到不安，這很容易理解。 - Even so, the equipment makers argue that, while doable, all this sensing palaver makes white-space devices needlessly complicated and expensive.
即便如此，設備制造商提出雖然這種做法可行，但整個繁瑣的感應過程使白色空間設備異常複襍和昂貴。 - However, another fascinating question,【 hitherto absent from the current palaver, 】may prove more tractable.
至今另一個未出現在目前的故弄玄虛中，但饒有趣味的問題或許能証明事實竝不那麽棘手。 - Even so, the equipment-makers argue that, though doable, all this sensing palaver makes white-space devices needlessly complicated and expensive.
ECONOMIST: Difference Engine - And for all the palaver from European officials about a Greek exit being manageable, this exit would (at a minimum) trigger a new intensification of the crisis.
FORBES: Greece: We Need to Stop Confusing Default with Exit - There will also be a lot of pious palaver about the need for more cooperation, better international regulation and new initiatives to fight protectionism and promote free trade.
FORBES: Weak Dollar = Weak Recovery
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- unnecessary work and trouble
- tedious or time-consuming business, esp when of a formal nature
- (often used humorously) to have a conference