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

什么意思？-不要谈。

I have to skip the chitchat. Emergency.

我不能谈了 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" 女客随便谈，一边思忖：文明社会这样消磨自己心智，把短促生命浪费在无聊应酬上实在令人莫解。

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.

在与邻居和朋谈中，我们发现很多花园主人在观看野生动物方面有一些有趣经历，所以我们决定调查城市不同地区花园主人。

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

很多时候，在正式提问之前都会先谈。

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（谈）" 。

Probably the most iconic small talk topic is the weather.

最具代表性谈话题可能是天气。

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.

这些人只是在谈，虽然他们准许进去见一见奥芝，然而每天清晨，总是准时跑来在王宫外面侍候。

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

嘿。我们何不开始姐妹谈呢？我来一个话题先。

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

其实，这是对机智、谈和善意玩笑报复。

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.

她经常和路路通谈，这个小伙子，艾娥达夫人谈话语气里已经猜透了对方心事。

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.

谈另一目就是，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.

这一出小小穿插演出刺激了安妮好奇心，但梅格太困了，没力气再谈，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.

他不和谁谈，也不和难游戏，在学校里上课时候，只把两拳摆在双颊上，岩石样坐着听先生话。

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

好。节目最后我们再揭晓答案。谈是一种社交技能。

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.

该书谈式风格（它以作者与一位法国记者尼古拉斯·特罗翁谈话为基础）会让人误以为：书中思想都很简单。

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谈；纳威似乎把他书单不知搁在什么地方了，因而他那位看上去很可怕祖母数落了一番。

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，你知道我不喜欢谈。