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英语俚语:bat the breeze

  bat the breeze 闲扯
          Jim: Did you have a talk with John yesterday?
          Lucy: Yeah. We had a good talk and he concerned about my plight(我的处境).
          Jim: Did he say that he could help you to find a job?
          Lucy: At first we only batted the breeze about modern life and modern
pressure. Then I asked him if he could pull the strings(暗地里使劲).
          Jim: What did he say? Not giving you a tumble (不理睬), I think?
          Lucy: He promised that he would keep an ear open.
          注:breeze指“微风”,bat the breeze的字面意思是“用球拍煽微风”,在此指“聊天”、“闲扯”或“瞎聊”。例如:They spent
the whole afternoon, sitting in the room and batting the breeze.
他们坐在屋子里,一下午都在山南海北地瞎扯。
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