palaver: [18] Palaver originated as a piece of naval slang picked up by English sailors in Africa. There they came across Portuguese traders negotiating with the local inhabitants, a process known in Portuguese as palavra ‘speech’ (a descendant of Latin parabola, source of English parable). They took the Portugese word over as palaver, applying it first to ‘negotiations’, and then by extension to ‘idle chatter’. => parable
palaver (n.)
1733 (implied in palavering), "talk, conference, discussion," sailors' slang, from Portuguese palavra "word, speech, talk," traders' term for "negotiating with the natives" in West Africa, metathesis of Late Latin parabola "speech, discourse," from Latin parabola "comparison" (see parable). Meaning "idle talk" first recorded 1748. The verb is 1733, from the noun. Related: Palavering.
palaver 英文释义
1. flattery intended to persuade
2. loud and confused and empty talk;
"mere rhetoric"
palaver 双语例句
1. We don't want all that palaver, do we?
我们不想那样小题大做，不是吗？
来自柯林斯例句
2. What's all the palaver about?
这些鸡毛蒜皮的事到底是为什么？
来自《权威词典》
3. What a palaver there was about paying the bill !
付账的事真费口舌呀！
来自辞典例句
4. What a palaver there was about paying the bill!
付账的事真费口舌呀!
来自互联网
5. However, another fascinating question, hitherto absent from the current palaver, may prove more tractable.
然而, 另一个至今都没人谈论到的,更吸引人的问题, 或许更容易找到答案.
来自互联网
palaver 实用场景例句
We don't want all that palaver, do we?
我们不想那样小题大做，不是吗？
柯林斯例句
What's all the palaver about?
这些鸡毛蒜皮的事到底是为什么？
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
What a palaver there was about paying the bill !
付账的事真费口舌呀！
辞典例句
What a palaver there was about paying the bill!
付账的事真费口舌呀!
互联网
The boy tried to palaver his mother into letting him stay up later.
