| 词汇 | bull-session |
| 释义 | bull session noun[ C ] USinformaluk /ˈbʊl ˌseʃ.ən/ us /ˈbʊl ˌseʃ.ən/ a long conversation or informal discussion: 闲谈，聊天;漫谈 late-night bull sessions in college dorm rooms大学学生宿舍的深夜聊天会 Informal talking & conversation a problem shared is a problem halvedidiom banter bantering banteringly bants bloviate buzz catch catch up with someone chew the fatidiom conversation conversational gambit pass persiflage put the world to rightsidiom speech take/lead someone on/to one sideidiom talk some sense into sbidiom tête-à-tête bull session | Business Englishbull session noun[ C ] USinformalukus an informal discussion, usually involving a group of people: We were sitting around his office having a bull session. Examples of bull sessionbull session The evening turned into a sort of college bullsession. From The Atlantic It's the kind of issue that you dispose of in your first bullsession in the freshman dorm. From Heritage.org And that means there is less scope for grand theorizing, fewer intense late-night bull sessions, less stirring eloquence at student forums and in political unions. From The Atlantic Sometimes we call those grant proposals and sometimes just bull sessions, but it's basically what we argue about is whether this is useful ignorance or not. From NPR In bullsession debate he was instantly beyond the depth of everyone else. From Project Gutenberg Well, in any event, he evidenced no interest in the bullsession, as you described it? From Project Gutenberg He wished he'd written him last night, instead of joining the usual beer and bullsession in the wardroom. From Project Gutenberg That night they crawled under their mosquito bars and fell sound asleep without the usual "bullsession" of complaints. From Project Gutenberg That used to be one of the burning questions in first-year psych students' bull sessions. From Project Gutenberg Reading, card and dice games, eating, sleeping, and interminable "bull sessions" helped to pass the time. From Project Gutenberg They had finished dinner and were gathering in the lounge, sparring around, setting up groups for the bull sessions that would go until long after midnight. From Project Gutenberg In the evenings, in the study lounge of the dormitory, they held interminable bull sessions exchanging and digesting what they had been shown during the day. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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