Talking-point

Definition

talk /tↄ:k/ v ၁။ ~ (to/with sb) (about/of sth/sb) ေျပာသည္။ စကားေျပာသည္။ စကားလက္ဆံုက်သည္။ ေဆြးေႏြးသည္။ talk non-stop ❍ We talked (ie to each other) for almost an hour. ❍ I could hear them talking downstairs. ❍ He was talking to/with a friend. ❍ What are they talking about? ❍ She talked of applying for another job ❍ Are they talking in Spanish or Portuguese? ❍ You can always talk to me if you've got a problem. ❍ speak ၂။ စကား ေျပာတတ္သည္။ children learning to talk. ၃။ ေဆြးေႏြးသည္။ talk business/politics/football. ၄။ ေျပာသည္။ She talks a lot of sense. ❍ You're talking rubbish/nonsense. ၅။ … ဘာသာျဖင့္ေျပာသည္။ … လို ေျပာသည္။ talk French. ၆။ (အသံျပာေအာင္ စသည္) ေျပာသည္။ talk oneself hoarse. ၇။ သမုတ္သည္။ We must stop meeting like this—people are beginning to talk! ❍ You'll have to be more discreet if you don't want to get yourself talked about. ၈။ ထြက္သည္။ ေျပာသည္။ The police questioned him for hours but he refused to talk. ၉။ စကားေျပာတတ္သည္။ You can teach some parrots to talk. n ၁။ [C] စကားလက္ဆံုေျပာျခင္း။ ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္း။ I had a long talk with my boss about my career prospects. ❍ We'll have to have a serious talk about this soon. ၂။ [U] (က) လက္ေတြ႕မပါေသာအေျပာ။ ေလ။ Don't worry—his threats are just talk. ❍ Politicians are all talk—they never actually do anything. ❍ There's too much talk and not enough work being done. (ခ) ေကာလာဟလ။ သတင္းေျပး ျခင္း။ There's (some) talk of a general election. ၃။ [C] ေဟာေျပာခ်က္။ မိန္႔ခြန္း။ She gave a talk on her visit to China. ၄။ talks [pl] တရားဝင္ေဆြးေႏြးညိႇႏိႈင္းျခင္း။ ေဆြးေႏြး ပြဲ။ arms talks ❍ The latest round of pay talks has broken down. ❍ Further talks aimed at producing peace will be held next month. ၅။ [U] (esp in compounds) စကားေျပာပံု၊ ဟန္။ … စကား။ baby-talk ❍ sales talk. See also SMALL TALK, SWEET TALK ❏ look who's talking [ IDM ] ( infml ) ကိုယ့္မ်က္ေခ်း ကိုယ္မျမင္၊ သူမ်ားမ်က္ေခ်းကိုျမင္။ မင္းကမ်ားေျပာရေသးတယ္၊ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကိုယ္ျပန္ၾကည့္ဦး။ ❏ now you're talking [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒီလိုမွေပါ့။ Take the day off? Now you're talking! ❏ talk about … [ IDM ] ( infml ) (ေလးနက္ေစရန္ ေျပာေသာ စကား)။ အိုး မေျပာပါနဲ႔ေတာ့၊ မႀကံဳဖူးပါဘူး။ ရွာမွရွားပဲ။ Talk about expensive! I've never known a place like it. ❏ talk at sb [ PHRV ] တစ္ဦးတည္းဒိုင္ခံေျပာသည္။ You can't have a proper conversation with him—he just talks at you all the time. ❏ talkative /'tↄ:kǝtÇv/ adj စကားမ်ားေသာ။ a very talkative child ❍ Are you feeling all right? You're not very talkative this evening. ❏ talk back (to sb) [ PHRV ] ျပန္ပက္သည္။ She doesn't like her pupils to talk back to her. ❏ talk sb down [ PHRV ] … ၏အသံကိုလႊမ္းေအာင္ ေအာ္ေျပာ သည္။ ❏ talk sb/sth down [ PHRV ] ေလယာဥ္ဆင္းသက္ႏိုင္ရန္ ေျမျပင္မွၫႊန္ၾကားသည္။ ❏ talk down to sb [ PHRV ] အထက္စီးမွေျပာသည္။ ႏိွမ္ေျပာ သည္။ I can't stand politicians who talk down to the public. ❏ talker n ၁။ (esp with an adj ) ႏႈတ္(ေရး) …သူ။ a brilliant/constant/reluctant talker ❍ She's a great talker (ie She talks a lot). ၂။ အေျပာသမား။ Don't rely on him to do anything—he's just a talker. ❏ talk the hind legs off a donkey [ IDM ] ( infml ) နားၿငီး ေလာက္ေအာင္ စကားေၾကာရွည္သည္။ ❏ talking of sb/sth [ IDM ] စကားစပ္မိလို႔ေျပာရဦးမယ္။ Talking of Jim, have you heard that he's getting married? ❏ talking-point n ေဆြးေႏြးရန္အခ်က္။ The main talking-point at the conference was the new tax on imports. ❏ talking-to n [sing] ဆူျခင္း။ ႀကိမ္းျခင္း။ That child needs a good talking-to. ❏ talk sb into/out of doing sth [ PHRV ] စည္း႐ံုးသည္။ ေဖ်ာင္းဖ်သည္။ နားခ်သည္။ He talked his father into lending him the car. ❍ I tried to talk her out of leaving. ❏ the talk of sth [ IDM ] … လံုး ပါးစပ္ဖ်ားတြင္ရိွေနသည့္ ကိစၥ။ Her resignation was the talk of the office. ❏ talk sth out [ PHRV ] ရင္ဖြင့္သည္။ Sometimes it's better to talk out a problem than to keep it to yourself. ❏ talk sth over (with sb) [ PHRV ] အေက်အလည္ ေဆြးေႏြး သည္။ talk over your problems with sb ❍ Her parents talked it over and decided to give her their permission. ❏ talk round sth [ PHRV ] သေဝထိုးသည္။ We wasted a whole hour talking round the problem instead of discussing ways of solving it. ❏ talk sb round (to sth) [ PHRV ] နားသြင္းသည္။ နားခ် သည္။ We finally managed to talk them round (to our way of thinking). ❏ talk shop [ IDM ] ( usu derog ) အလုပ္အေၾကာင္းေျပာသည္။ I had lunch with Clive and Peter and they talked shop the whole time. ❏ talk show n ( esp US ) = CHAT SHOW ❏ talk through one's hat [ IDM ] ေပါက္ကရေျပာသည္။ အရည္မရအဖတ္မရေျပာသည္။ ❏ talk turkey [ IDM ] ( infml esp US ) ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္း တဲ့တိုးေျပာသည္။ ❏ talk sb/sth up [ PHRV ] ( US ) စန္းတင္သည္။ ဗန္းတင္ သည္။ talk up the tourist attractions to encourage more visitors. ❏ talk one's way out of sth/doing sth [ IDM ] လိမၼာပါးနပ္ စြာ လွည့္ပတ္ေျပာၿပီး ႐ုန္းထြက္သည္။ I'd like to see him talk his way out of this one (ie this trouble he has got into). ❏ you can/can't talk [ IDM ] ( infml ) = LOOK WHO'S TALKING ❏ you're a fine one to talk [ IDM ] ( infml ) = LOOK WHO'S TALKING

Examples

1. Can their baby talk yet?
2. Am I talking too much?
3. They were all talking and laughing together.
4. [talk to] : I need to talk to you.
5. [talk with] : Everyone was busily talking with their friends.
6. [talk about] : We were talking about you just last night.
7. I’ve taught my parrot to talk.
8. You and I need to talk.
9. My wife and I aren’t talking at the moment.
10. [talk to] : You kids never talk to me (=discuss anything important with me).
11. [keep talking] : Officials agreed on Monday to keep talking despite the latest crisis.
12. [talk politics/sports/religion etc] : He spoilt the evening by talking politics all the time.
13. [talking of something] : Oh yes
14. talking of Harry
15. have you seen him recently?
16. You can’t stay here – the neighbours would talk.
17. [talk on/about] : In the hall a woman was talking on diet and health.
18. Do you think the prisoners will talk?
19. The software enables the two computers to talk.
20. Money talks!
21. She talks a good game about protecting the environment
22. but she doesn't even recycle.
23. Yes Tracy and you always tell me I'm talking bobbins.
24. She talks big but can't produce anything.
25. I don't believe he's ever shot even a duck
26. but he sure talks big about hunting.