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词汇 heart-to-heart
释义 heart-to-heart
noun[ Cusually singular ]
(alsoheart to heart)uk /ˌhɑːt.təˈhɑːt/ us /ˌhɑːrt.təˈhɑːrt/
a serious conversation between two people, usually close friends, in which they talk honestly about their feelings: 促膝谈心,交心
have a heart-to-heartWe had a heart-to-heart over a bottle of wine.我们就着一瓶葡萄酒促膝谈心。
In heart-to-hearts with my best friend, I confessed that I hated the way I had behaved.
He and I had a heart to heart and discussed the various problems at length.
You need to have a heart-to-heart with your husband and tell him how you're feeling.
Only a heart-to-heart with the coach prevented him from leaving the club.
We don't tend to have heart-to-hearts much.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
banter
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
palaver
pass
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
tête-à-tête
heart-to-heart
adjective[ before noun ]
uk /ˌhɑːt.təˈhɑːt/ us /ˌhɑːrt.təˈhɑːrt/
(of a conversation) between two people, usually close friends, in which they talk honestly about their feelings:
It turned out to be a good heart-to-heart chat.
He called his father for a heart-to-heart talk.
I had a number of heart-to-heart talks with him but I did not manage to change his mind.
They had a heart-to-heart chat about her marriage.
I had some long heart-to-heart conversations with the women I met.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Informal talking & conversation
a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom
banter
bantering
banteringly
bants
bloviate
bull session
buzz
catch
chew the fatidiom
conversation
conversational
gambit
palaver
pass
persiflage
put the world to rightsidiom
speech
take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom
tête-à-tête

heart-to-heart | American Dictionary


heart-to-heart
noun[ C ]
us/ˈhɑrt·təˈhɑrt/
a talk or discussion in which two people talk honestly and in a serious way about their feelings:
We had a good, heart-to-heart talk about where our relationship was heading.

Examples of heart-to-heart


heart-to-heart
He forecast the emergence of a new technologically mediated honesty from the use of brain-machine interfaces for heart-to-heart communication.
I wish he would have heart-to-heart talks with the county agricultural executive committees, and tell them what he wants them to do.
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Has he met him over a cup of tea and had a heart-to-heart talk about it?
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Is it not because he finds that a few hours heart-to-heart talk on the spot do more than months of communication?
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He cannot enter freely into the sort of heart-to-heart discussions which would have been desirable at the outset.
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Those are examples of what people realise in general terms can be done through a heart-to-heart gift.
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It is not the language of a man in a heart-to-heart talk with another man, but the language of a highly-cultured literary person talking down to the people.
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In almost every case, they should be able to find a method of settling the dispute by a simple heart-to-heart with an adviser who is sympathetic to both parties.
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The two have a heart-to-heart about their friendship and embracing their inner freak.
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However, the heart-to-heart she has wanted to have with her never takes place as her health rapidly deteriorates.
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Louie then takes his friend to the hospital where they have a genuine heart-to-heart conversation about the difficulties of marriage.
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They then have a heart-to-heart on the porch.
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After a long heart-to-heart, she convinced him that she was flattered and that he would one day meet the right woman.
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During their secret heart-to-heart, they are clueless in knowing that they are being poisoned by carbon monoxide, which is spreading throughout the halls, and they collapse.
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