What's " No" ? -? No small talk.

什么意思？-不要闲谈。

I have to skip the chitchat. Emergency.

我不能闲谈了 紧急情况。

I reflected, while I chatted with the woman I had been asked to " take in, " that civilised man practises a strange ingenuity in wasting on tedious exercises the brief span of his life.

我一边和一位叫我" 陪同" 的女客随便闲谈，一边思忖：文明社会这样消磨自己的心智，把短促的生命浪费无聊的应酬上实令人莫解。

Our own informal discussions with neighbours and friends led us to believe that many garden owners had interesting experiences to relate regarding wild animal sightings so we decided to survey garden owners from different areas of the city.

与邻居和朋友的闲谈中，我们发现园的主人观看野生动物方面有一些有趣的经历，所以我们决定调查城市不同地区的园主人。

A lot of the time, small talk comes up before any questions.

时候，正式提问之前都会先闲谈。

If we hadn't been all sitting down together and talking I would never have known.

如果我们没有坐下来闲谈，我就永远不会知道。

The British would call it a chin-wag.

英国人会称为" chin-wag（闲谈）" 。

Probably the most iconic small talk topic is the weather.

最具代表性的闲谈话题可能天气。

These people had nothing to do but talk to each other, but they always came to wait outside the Throne Room every morning, although they were never permitted to see Oz.

这些人闲谈，虽然他们从未被准许进去见一见奥芝，然而每天清晨，总准时跑来王宫外面侍候。

Hey. Why don't we start that girl talk? I'll get the ball rolling.

嘿。我们何不开始姐妹闲谈呢？我来一个话题先。

Well, it's a revenge on wit, on chat and on banter.

其实，这对机智、闲谈和善意的玩笑的报复。

Sometimes in the afternoon she went to chat with the postilions.

下午，她有时也去对面驿站找马车夫闲谈。

She often chatted with Passepartout, who did not fail to perceive the state of the lady's heart;and, being the most faithful of domestics, he never exhausted his eulogies of Phileas Fogg's honesty, generosity, and devotion.

她经常和路路通闲谈，这个小伙子，从艾娥达夫人谈话的语气里已经猜透了对方的心事。

Another purpose of small talk, once a speaker is satisfied that the other person is worth talking with, is to explore possible areas of interest or cooperation.

闲谈的另一目的就，一旦满意对方且了解对方值得交谈后，谈话人就要探究彼此可能感兴趣及合作的范畴。

This little bit of byplay excited Annie's curiosity, but Meg was too tired for gossip and went to bed, feeling as if she had been to a masquerade and hadn't enjoyed herself as much as she expected.

这一出小小的穿插演出刺激了安妮的好奇心，但梅格太困了，没力气再闲谈，就上床睡了。她觉得好像参加了一次化装舞会，没有得到自己预期的诸般乐趣。

He speaks to no one, he plays with no one, he is always on hand, on his bench, with his fists pressed to his temples, firm as a rock, listening to the teacher.

他不和谁闲谈，也不和难游戏，学校里上课时候，把两拳摆双颊上，岩石样坐着听先生的话。

OK. Well, we'll have the answer to that question at the end of the programme. Small talk is a social skill.

好的。节目的最后我们再揭晓答案。闲谈一种社交技能。

The book's chatty style (it is based on a conversation with Nicolas Truong, a French journalist) lends a deceptive simplicity to the ideas within.

该书的闲谈式风格（它以作者与一位法国记者尼古拉斯·特罗翁的谈话为基础）会让人误以为：书中的思想都简单。

Harry didn't stop to chat; Neville appeared to have mislaid his book list and was being told off by his very formidable-looking grandmother.

哈利没有停下来和他闲谈；纳威似乎把他的书单不知搁什么地方了，因而被他那位看上去可怕的祖母数落了一番。

What would we talk about? We have no overlapping areas of interest I'm aware of. As you know, I don't care for chitchat.

我们谈些什么？据我所知我们没有共同语言，你知道的我不喜欢闲谈。