名詞 · 1
词源
繼承自中古英語 conversacioun，來自古法語 conversacion及其同源詞，拉丁語 conversātiōnem，conversātiō (“會話”)的賓格單數，來自conversor (“駐足，陪伴”)。 型態分析為converse + -ation。
读音
- /ˌkɒn.vəˈseɪ.ʃən/
- [ˌkʰɒɱ.vəˈseɪ.ʃn̩]
- /ˌkɑn.vəɹˈseɪ.ʃən/
- [ˌkʰɑɱ.vɚˈseɪ.ʃn̩]
释义
會話，談話，對話
I had an interesting conversation with Nicolas yesterday about how much he's getting paid.
昨天我与尼古拉斯就他的薪水进行了一次有趣的谈话。
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations:When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.
1897年12月 (標示為1898年)，温斯顿·丘吉尔，第V章，收錄於The Celebrity: An Episode，紐約：The Macmillan Company；倫敦：麥米倫出版公司，→OCLC：A little less conversation, a little more action please / All this aggravation ain't satisfactioning me
1968，Mac Davis，Billy Strange，「A Little Less Conversation」，由 Elvis Presley：刀劍來回交鋒的動作
處理交易時系統之間基於協議的互動
與他人的商業或交際；與他人交易
Yt chaunſed thatt a whole yere they had their converſacion with the congregacion there / and taught moche people in ſomoche thatt the diſciples off Antioche wer the fyrſt that wer called Chriſten.
1526，[威廉廷代爾譯]，The Newe Testamẽt […]（丁道爾譯本），[Worms, Germany：Peter Schöffer]，→OCLC，「The Actes off the Apostles xj:[26], folios clxxi, recto – clxxi, verso」：行為，舉止；生活方式
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
你們存心不可貪愛錢財；要以自己所有的為足；因為主曾說：『我總不撇下你，也不丟棄你。』
1611，The Holy Bible, […]（King James Version），London： […] Robert Barker, […]，→OCLC，「Hebrews 13:5」：There are many that take no heed what happeneth to others by bad conversation, and therefore overthrow themselves in the same manner through their own fault, not foreseeing dangers manifest.
1624，Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton]，The Anatomy of Melancholy: […]，2nd版，Oxford, Oxfordshire：Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps，→OCLC：性交
criminal conversation
通姦罪
Ariadne[…]quitted her Lover Theseus, for the tumultuous Conversation of Bacchus.
1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of the Life of Sally Salisbury:Our travellers had happened to take up their residence at a house of exceeding good repute, whither Irish ladies of strict virtue, and many northern lasses of the same predicament, were accustomed to resort in their way to Bath. The landlady therefore would by no means have admitted any conversation of a disreputable kind to pass under her roof. Indeed, so foul and contagious are all such proceedings, that they contaminate the very innocent scenes where they are committed, and give the name of a bad house, or of a house of ill repute, to all those where they are suffered to be carried on.
1749，Henry Fielding，The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling [棄兒湯姆·瓊斯的歷史]，(please specify |volume=I to VI)卷，London：A[ndrew] Millar, […]，→OCLC： Folio Society 1973, p. 333:對特定主題、想法、研究領域等的參與
So grosse is our conuersation, and dull is our apprehension: while mortall Sense, in vs, ruleth the common wealth of our litle world.
1570, John Dee, in H. Billingsley (trans.) Euclid, Elements of Geometry, Preface:
词形与写法（1）
| 词形 | 标注 | 转写 |
|---|---|---|
| conversations | plural |