confab

['kɔnfæb]

n. 会议, 讨论
vi. 会谈

词形变化：

动词过去式: confabbed | 动词过去分词: confabbed | 动词现在分词: confabbing | 动词第三人称单数: confabs |

n.

交谈; 闲谈

vi.

谈话, 闲谈

confab

过去式：confabbed

过去分词：confabbed

现在进行时：confabbing

词形变化：

动词过去式: confabbed | 动词过去分词: confabbed | 动词现在分词: confabbing | 动词第三人称单数: confabs |

confab['kɔnfæb]n.1.■[口语]闲谈，聊天；商谈；讨论vi.1.■[口语]闲谈，聊天；谈心；商谈；讨论：Let's confab a bit about that idea.咱们来讨论一下那条意见。变形vi.confabbedconfabbing

1. an informal private conversation or discussion
   闲谈，私人谈话
   ■(N. Amer.)a meeting or conference of members of a particular group
   (北美)（团体成员的）会议
   

1. [no obj.]engage in informal private conversation
   闲谈，私下谈话
   Peter was confabbing with a curly-haired guy.
   彼得正在和一个鬈头发的家伙闲谈。
   

1. early 18th cent.: abbreviation of confabulation (see confabulate)
   

confab

名词 confab:

an informal conversation

同义词：chat, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose

动词 confab:

talk socially without exchanging too much information

同义词：chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, chitchat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit

have a conference in order to talk something over

同义词：confer, confabulate, consult

confab

■biz confab

[美俚]商量

■The five-day confab, which has signed up about 2,500 participants, will be a more sober affair than usual, organizers say.

五天的论坛年会，约2500人报名参加。组织者称，此次会议比以往更加凝重。

■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。

■All kinds of meeting rooms, function room, furnished with the advanced andio-visual equipment, it is your business confab, hold the place of the mecting.

各种类型的会议室、多功能厅、配有先进的视听设备、是您商务会谈、举办会议的理想场所。

■Let's confab a bit about that idea.

咱们来讨论一下那条意见。

■business confab

商<业>务会谈

■At a confab for motivational speakers, she is told that anyone can achieve "infinite power" by resonating in tune with the universe.

在一次励志演讲会上，她被告知一个人如果和与宇宙调共鸣，那么他能获得无穷力量。

■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。

■We would see them confab in that room.

我们常看到他们在那房间里闲谈。

■I've just had a confab with the manager and he says we can all have the day off next Wednesday.

我刚跟经理谈过，他说下周三我们全都放假一天。

■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 new-world confab, at $95 per person at the Burbank Marriott Hotel, will occur in a city already famous for aeronautic and media flights of fancy.

新的世界confab ，在95美元每人在伯班克万豪酒店，将发生在一个城市已经著名的航空和媒体花式飞行。

■the annual movie confab in Cannes

每年在戛纳举行的电影盛会

■The confab was the third Dutch-treat lunch hosted by Obama at the White House over the past several months.

这是过去几个月奥巴马在白宫举行的第三次AA制午餐会议了。

■confab 1.

闲谈（名词）；