| 单词 | in conference |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin conference a. The action of conferring or taking counsel, now always on an important or serious subject or affair; ‘the act of conversing on serious subjects, formal discourse’ (Johnson); but formerly in the more general sense of: Conversation, discourse, talk. in conference, engaged (in a conference), busy (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting aughteOE redeOE somrunec1275 speakingc1275 counselc1290 deliberationc1405 advisement1414 commoninga1425 communingc1425 imparlement1450 imparling1450 parleyc1490 parleying1508 counselment1523 parling1527 counsellinga1533 practice1540 interview1541 consultation1548 parliance1553 conference1555 enterparling1557 consult1560 imparlee1565 parlance1577 imparlance1579 parliamenting1582 deliberative1590 converse1614 parliamentation1622 powwowing1642 consulting1823 powwowism1873 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [phrase] > in conference negotiations in treaty1881 in conference1926 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. ii. f. 10 You may..knowe by conference had with the Apothecaries. 1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 1v Reading maketh a full man, conference a readye man, and writing an exacte man. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 17 Nor with such free and friendly Conference As he hath vs'd of old. View more context for this quotation c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 65 To St. Marys Chapell, where I had some Conference with two English Jesuites. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 45 I saw the monk in close conference with a lady. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. ii. 40 Their hours of happy mirth and moments of serious conference . View more context for this quotation 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. viii. 268 He demanded to be admitted to a last conference with the King. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxiv. 171 Our conference ended with the arrangement that I was to write him an official letter. 1926 P. G. Wodehouse Heart of Goof iii. 96 ‘We can ring..up on the 'phone and ask.’ ‘And be told that he is in conference.’ 1927 Amer. Speech 2 214/1 To be in conference. The English ‘he's engaged’ is much less imposing. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xv. 205 I told H. K. that I was in conference and that if he would contact my secretary..a meeting might be arranged. < as lemmas |
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