conversation, dialogue, talk, chat

名詞 dialogue:

1. a conversation between two persons
   同義詞：dialog, duologue
2. the lines spoken by characters in drama or fiction
   同義詞：dialog
3. a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people
   同義詞：dialog
4. a discussion intended to produce an agreement
   同義詞：negotiation, talks

1. The sound effects had been pre-recorded and were added to the dialogue.
   音響效果經(jīng)預錄後已加入對話中。
2. The novel contains more narrative than dialogue.
   這部小說里的敘述比對話多。
3. The writer is not very good at writing dialogues.
   這個作家不太擅長寫對白。
4. At last there can be a reasonable dialogue between our two governments.
   我們兩國最后終于能理智地進行對話了。

dialogue 或 di.a.log

n.Abbr. dial.（名詞）縮寫 dial.
A conversation between two or more people.
對話：兩個或兩個以上的人之間的談話

Conversation between characters in a drama or narrative.
對白：戲劇或敘述中人物之間的談話
The lines or passages in a script that are intended to be spoken.
講演詞：講演稿中的行或段
A literary work written in the form of a conversation:
對話體：用談話形式撰寫的文學用品：
例句：
the dialogues of Plato.
柏拉圖的對話

Music A composition or passage for two or more parts, suggestive of conversational interplay.
【音樂】 對話樂曲：起聯(lián)想到對話作用的兩個或兩個以上部分的作曲或樂曲段落
An exchange of ideas or opinions:
交換意見：思想或意見的交換：
例句：
achieving constructive dialogue with all political elements.
同所有政治家進行了富有建設性的對話

v.（動詞）
di.a.logued 或 di.a.loged di.a.logu.ing 或 di.a.log.ing di.a.logues 或 di.a.logs
v.tr.（及物動詞）
To express as or in a dialogue.
按或用對話表達
v.intr.（不及物動詞）
To converse in a dialogue.
對話：用對話交談
Usage Problem To engage in an informal exchange of views.
【用法疑難】 進行非正式的意見交換

來源：
Middle English dialog
中古英語 dialog
from Old French dialogue
源自 古法語 dialogue
from Latin dialogus
源自 拉丁語 dialogus
from Greek dialogos [conversation]
源自 希臘語 dialogos [交談]
from dialegesthai [to discuss] * see dialect
源自 dialegesthai [討論] *參見 dialect

【引伸】
di.alog.uer
n.（名詞）
In recent yearsthe verb sense ofdialogue meaning .to engage in an informal exchange of views. has been revived, particularly with reference to communication between parties in institutional or political contexts.Although Shakespeare, Coleridge, and Carlyle used it,this usage today is widely regarded as jargon or bureaucratese.For example, 98 percent of the Usage Panel rejects the sentence
近些年來，dialogue 的.進行非正式的意見交換.的動詞含意已經(jīng)被修改了， 特別在指關于機構或政治方面黨派之間的交往時。盡管莎士比亞，科爾里奇，卡萊爾用過它，但是今天這種用法普通被認為難懂或者是一種官腔。例如：百分之九十八的用法專題使用小組的成員拒絕這種句子
例句：
Critics have charged that the department was remiss in not trying to dialogue with representatives of the community before hiring the new officers.
在雇用新的官員之前，評論家們已指責該部門在與社會代表的對話中對自己的職責有疏忽