English Dictionary

talk

/tɔːk/

verb

(intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech. / (transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about. / (transitive) To speak (a certain language).

I love to talk to my friends.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you.

意味（2）

(transitive, informal) To discuss; to talk about.

They sat down to talk business.

意味（3）

(transitive) To speak (a certain language).

We talk French sometimes.

意味（4）

(transitive, informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) Used to emphasise the importance, size, complexity etc. of the thing mentioned.

Are you interested in the job? They're talking big money.

意味（5）

(intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.

Suppose he talks?

意味（6）

(intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.

I am not the one to talk.

意味（7）

(intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.

意味（8）

(informal, chiefly used in progressive tenses) To influence someone to express something, especially a particular stance or viewpoint or in a particular manner.

You're only sticking up for her because you like her; that's your penis talking.