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. 谈判，交涉；奉承
• vi. 唠叨；空谈；奉承，拍马
• vt. 奉承

词根记忆

• pala(ce)(宫殿) + aver(承认，说话)→宫殿里的话→奉承

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• 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.
  现在，许多人都认为打造个人品牌和自吹自擂是职场生存的秘笈，所以，你才会对目前的情况感到不安，这很容易理解。
• 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，设备制造商提出虽然这种做法可行，但整个繁琐的感应过程使白色空间设备异常复杂和昂贵。
• However, another fascinating question,【 hitherto absent from the current palaver, 】may prove more tractable.
  至今另一个未出现在目前的故弄玄虚中，但饶有趣味的问题或许能证明事实并不那么棘手。

权威例句

• 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

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• unnecessary work and trouble

柯林斯英英字典

• tedious or time-consuming business, esp when of a formal nature
• (often used humorously) to have a conference