chit-chat

noun

1. 闲聊；聊天；闲谈
   conversation about things that are not important

1. N-UNCOUNT 闲聊;聊天
   Chit-chat is informal talk about things that are not very important.
   1. Not being a mother, I found the chit-chat exceedingly dull.
      我没当母亲，所以觉得那样的闲谈无聊透顶。

1. Not being a mother, I found the chit-chat exceedingly dull.
   我没当母亲，所以觉得那样的闲谈无聊透顶。
2. If you walk into any crowded machine room, chances are you'll catch chit-chat about "shebangs," slashes, dot-dots, root, pipes, ports, and dash-dash this and that.
   如果您走进一个拥挤的机房，可能会听到有关“shebangs”、斜线、点、根、管道、端口等等这个那个的闲聊。
3. Encourage others to talk so you wont have to make the idle chit-chat.
   鼓励别人去多说，这样你就不必说些家长里短的话了。
4. When I was having a chit-chat with my colleague, she asked me all of a sudden, How did your husband propose to you at that time?
   当我正和同事闲聊的时候，她突然问我，那时候你丈夫是怎么向你求婚的？
5. Stop this idle chit-chat and get on with your work!
   停止这种闲聊，做你的工作！
6. This is a process based on chit-chat and they obscured what they needed to.
   这是在闲聊的过程中，某些人隐晦的提出自己的要求。
7. After some stilted end-of-interview chit-chat, park puts her thatcheresque handbag over her arm and leaves.
   在一些客套的采访结束语后，朴槿惠挎上她的撒切尔式手包离开了。
8. Formal papers aren't casual conversations in tone or content, but they do share with chit-chat the goal of communication.
   正式的文章无论语气与内容都和日常对话不同，但目的却相同，都是要沟通。
9. Usually the person you've called, 14 they'd like to chit-chat too.
   一般和你打电话的那个人，也会喜欢闲聊。
10. They may not be much at English chit-chat ( Chinese schools are notorious for thinking language has nothing to do with communication), but one thing seems clear: they are born knowing how to spell Tiger Mother.
    这些学生可能不太擅长用英文聊天（中国的学校总是觉得语言与交流无关），但有一件事似乎非常清楚：他们生来就知道如何拼写虎妈（TigerMother）。
11. We just got together chit-chat and had some snacks.
    我们一家人聚在一起聊聊天，吃点零食。
12. The new radio station promises to replace chit-chat with more music.
    新电台保证用更多音乐代替闲聊。

noun

1. light informal conversation for social occasions

   Synonym:    chitchatchit chatsmall talkgabgabfestgossiptittle-tattlechin wagchin-wagchin waggingchin-waggingcauserie

verb

1. talk socially without exchanging too much information
   1. the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze

   Synonym:    chew the fatshoot the breezechatconfabulateconfabchitchatchatterchaffernattergossipjawclavervisit