大学英语词汇短语释义解析及例句 shoot the breeze


释义：

shoot the breeze 吹牛；闲扯

例句：



Let me buy you a cup of coffee and we'll sit down and shoot the breeze for a few minutes.

我来请你喝杯咖啡，让我们坐下来聊一会儿。



"There is no profit in it, no deep purpose, but we" shoot the breeze "anyway, just for fun."

这里并不涉及利益，也没有什么深层目的，但我们就是要闲聊，不管怎样，就为了快乐。



It meant you'd rather submit to the words of some white dude than shoot the breeze with your neighbors.

这意味着你宁可听那些白人说话，也不要和邻居闲扯。



You'll find it much easier to shoot the breeze and complain about work with someone who can relate to you than eating lunch alone every day.

与每天独自吃午饭相比，你会发现与合得来的人闲聊或是抱怨工作是更容易的事。



That would mean a proper bar where customers could sit to shoot the breeze with the bartender or other barflies, and nooks where they could nurse a drink and a book through a long evening.

那就意味着一个适当的酒吧，顾客可以坐在那里和侍者或其他酒鬼吹牛，还有角落可供他们喝酒读书以度过漫长的夜晚。


Victor Parker is his name, and the two men shoot the breeze like old business associates.


While the two alpha males talk shop inside, Hershel and Daryl shoot the breeze with Milton and Caesar outside.


This partner had a particularly strong scientific background, and was generally very down to earth, so it was usually great fun to shoot the breeze with her.


More and more characters are introduced, each one weirder than the last and all of them happy just to shoot the breeze, when they are not actually shooting each other.


The hero of 15 books by Lawrence Block, Scudder is a winningly smart-assed private eye who can shoot the breeze (and the bad guys) with the best of them, and has a capacity for abstract thought to boot.


It speeds up the retrieval and dissemination of information ... partially eliminating such chores as going outdoors to the mailbox or the adult bookstore, or having to pick up the phone to get hold of your stockbroker or some buddies to shoot the breeze with.