释义 |
ˈtalk-in [See -in3.] a. A gathering or meeting for discussion; a conference.
1966N.Y. Times 5 Oct. 46 LeRoi Jones, poet, play⁓wright and polemicist, sustained each aspect of his reputation..at a reading at the Village Theater... It was the second in a series of talk-ins presented at that house. 1970Times 7 Sept. 18 At the end of this month the insurance industry starts its talk-in with the Monopolies Commission over fire insurance. 1976Cumberland News 3 Dec. 18/5 Members..attended a very interesting and comprehensive ‘talk-in’ on the best way to prepare and present exhibits for showing. 1980J. Drummond Such a Nice Family ii. 16 It's for the patients themselves to choose. Why don't you ask them tonight, at the talk-in? b. spec. as a form of political protest (esp. by students) in which the matter at issue is discussed.
1967Time 30 June 28 Last week 180 Free University students staged a 45-hour hunger strike and talk-in..to demand the release of a jailed anti-Shah demonstrator. 1977D. James Spy at Evening xx. 159, I was in a student meeting... It was a talk-in on Vietnam. c. A radio or television discussion programme, esp. one broadcast live, and in which the audience may participate.
1971Guardian 14 Dec. 2 Part Two of the Tuesday doomwatch..charts the putative dangers of spreading nuclear power: then a talk-in asks if we should all keep quiet about it. 1977D. Parker Radio 154 The first few months of Capitol Radio and LBC (a station mainly concerned with news, but actually including every kind of ‘chat’ from author-interviews to interminable talk-ins and phone-ins) were dreadful beyond recall. |