confab
英 [ˈkɒnfæb]
美 [ˈkɑːnfæb]
n. 私人谈话; 闲谈; (行业或团体)会议
v. 会谈
第三人称单数：confabs 现在分词：confabbing 过去式：confabbed 过去分词：confabbed
COCA.36883
牛津词典
noun
- 私人谈话；闲谈
an informal private discussion or conversation - （行业或团体）会议
a meeting or conference of the members of a profession or group- the annual movie confab in Cannes
在戛纳举行的电影年会
- the annual movie confab in Cannes
英英释义
noun
- an informal conversation
verb
- have a conference in order to talk something over
- We conferred about a plan of action
- talk socially without exchanging too much information
- the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
双语例句
- There's nothing wicked about the smart city confab London is hosting this week.
本周在伦敦召开的智能城市讨论会并没有任何恶意。 - EXAMPLE: I attended a big industrial confab last week and had a lot of useful conversations with potential new customers.
我上周参加了一个大型产业会议，与潜在新客户进行了很多有益的交谈。 - You could see these two roaming about all day long with their heads close together in an everlasting confab.
你能看到这两个人整天逛来逛去，头挨着头没完没了地密谈。 - EXAMPLE: My colleagues at the office and I usually have a little confab for a few minutes every morning.
我和办公室的同事通常每天早上都要闲谈几分钟。 - The annual tech confab officially started today.
今天，消费电子展这个年度技术会议正式开始。 - It's a secret confab they don't want me to hear, I suppose.
我看一定是不想让我听见的保密话。 - The domain confab in vegas is like any other trade conference: the real intrigue happens at cocktail hour.
在拉斯维加斯，域名交流会就像其他的商贸会议一样：真正的阴谋在喝鸡尾酒时发生。 - Or even a more modest confab like a techcrunch disrupt.
不过，这次大会根本没有像美国得克萨斯州举行的西南偏南大型音乐节（SouthbySouthwest）那么轰动爆棚，甚至也赶不上像知名科技博客网站TechCrunch举办的Disrupt这种更正统的会议。 - Ulukaya's win was a surprise only because many of the 1, 000 attendees at the professional services firms 'annual confab guessed that the judges successful entrepreneurs from across the globe wouldn't bestow the top award on a U.S. founder.
乌鲁卡亚的成功之所以令人吃惊，是因为参加会议的1000名与会者中，有许多人猜测，由来自各国的成功企业家组成的评审团不会把这个奖项授予美国创业者。