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词汇 happy-talk
释义 happy talk
noun[ U ]
 COMMUNICATIONSukus
positive discussion or information that avoids unpleasant details or possible problems:
Funding cuts were especially damaging, yet top officials kept the happy talk going.
informal conversation between people giving the news on television, whose purpose is to entertain:
We take the news seriously, and our reports should sound serious, not be TV happy-talk.

Examples of happy talk


happy talk
Happytalk may also refer to a format of news which encourages such commentary.
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The delivery is stilted, without happytalk or humour.
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Happytalk has been derided by some who prefer a more traditional and staid newscast, though it has been happening in some places since the early days of broadcasting.
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It was happytalk in the sweet evening coolness; everybody seemed harmonious and in sympathy to-night.
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But, above all, at half-past four on concert days it echoes happytalk and chaff and boisterous laughter.
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And then, what ringing laughter, what merry jests, what earnest happytalk!
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And we then to join in the plaiting, and thus with happytalk and our times of eating, until that we did be come again to our slumber.
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Generally, the confession was a mere babble of happytalk, concerning his pictures, and his projects, but to-night he sat silent until the hair-brushing was nearly over.
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They all passed the rides and visits and the happy talks together.
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