| 释义 |
pep talk|ˈpɛp tɔːk|
[f. pep n. + talk n.]
A speech or address intended to revive morale or promote energy or enthusiasm in its hearers. So pep talker, one who delivers a pep talk.
1926B. Reynolds Cocktail Continentale xiv. 107 Where the great Cicero propounded his philosophy to the ages and from which our ‘Pep’ talks of to-day are copied. 1931K. K. Rockne Coaching (rev. ed.) xxii. 256 One coach I know has his football team, before a game, gather in a room which is painted red, for their so-called ‘pep-talk’. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) iv. 92 ‘Let's get through these holidays without any more mess... I don't want to give you a pep talk—’ ‘I know you don't. I don't blame you.’ 1935Wodehouse Luck of Bodkins vi. 66 I've seen that expression on her face a hundred times when she was giving us a pep talk before a match. 1940R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely xxxvi. 169 ‘I'm afraid of dying, of being nothing, of not finding a man named Brunette.’ He chuckled... ‘You sure give yourself a pep talk’. 1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday xxx. 243 I'm wondering if we couldn't invite him to lunch and ask him to give the workers a pep talk in the canteen. 1945[see flannel n. 1 f]. 1951in M. McLuhan Mech. Bride (1967) 36/1 Dr. Starch does not merely point out..essential qualities of executive leadership. He does not preach or deliver ‘pep’ talks! 1957J. Braine Room at Top v. 47 Worse still, there were what he called Pep Talks which were made specially gruesome by the fact that, since he seemed to be able to speak and scarcely open his lips, his..voice seemed to come from nowhere. 1969J. Wainwright Take-Over Men vii. 121 Forget the fancy trappings the politicians and pep-talkers hide it behind. 1971S. Hill Strange Meeting iii. 167 Every now and again Coulter gives us his pep talk, about how we are going to ‘go out there and show 'em’. 1973J. Wainwright Pride of Pigs 120 Which was what he was supposed to be doing{ddd}taking chances. The reason..for Harris's pep talk. 1976New Yorker 15 Nov. 137/2 The students were given pep talks to build up their confidence and strengthen their ‘will’. |