talking shop

英 [ˈtɔːkɪŋ ʃɒp]

美 [ˈtɔːkɪŋ ʃɑːp]

n.  (只讨论而无行动的)清谈俱乐部

牛津词典

noun

• （只讨论而无行动的）清谈俱乐部
  a place where there is a lot of discussion and argument but no action is taken

柯林斯词典

• (只说不做的)清谈会;清谈委员会
  If you say that a conference or a committee is just atalking shop, you disapprove of it because nothing is achieved as a result of what is discussed.

双语例句

• Just what the world needs: another talking shop.
  这正是世界所需要的：又一个清谈俱乐部。
• I hate anyone talking shop at a party.
  我受不了在社交聚会上听人谈生意经。
• As soon as they saw this, the customers stopped talking and, one by one, without hurrying, left the wine-shop.
  顾客们一看到这个动作便立刻停止了交谈，并一个接着一个从容地离开了酒店。
• What have you boys been up to?-oh, just talking a bit of shop.
  你们小伙子们在干吗？&啊，只是谈一点我们的本行。
• Then later, after talking further with initiates and learning about the Supreme teachings, the shop owner even learned the convenient method of meditation.
  后来，这位老板与同修进一步交谈，了解师父的无上教理后，还学了方便法。
• Lily and Li Lei are drinking coffee and talking at a coffee shop.
  莉莉和李雷在咖啡店边喝咖啡边谈。
• Little wonder that critics have long dismissed ASEAN as a talking shop.
  难怪长期以来，批评人士一直将东盟视为一个清谈俱乐部（talkingshop）。
• If you hang around with colleagues all the time you just end up talking shop.
  如果整天和同事泡在一起的话，你最终就会变得开口闭口都是工作。
• He became a member of the European Parliament in1979 when that body was just a talking shop, seeing it as a harbinger of bigger things to come.
  1979年成为了欧洲议会的一员，那会儿这个组织还只是个耍耍嘴皮子的地方，他们将他的加入视为天降大任的一个预兆。
• For such a grouping to be anything more than just a talking shop, it needs to make a material difference to the political debate in its member countries.
  这样的一个集团，如果不想沦为清谈俱乐部，就必须与其成员国国内的政治论战有实质性的区别。