資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Talk \Talk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Talked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Talking}.] [Cf. LG. talk talk, gabble, Prov. G. talken to
   speak indistinctly; or OD. tolken to interpret, MHG. tolkan
   to interpret, to tell, to speak indistinctly, Dan. tolke to
   interpret, Sw. tolka, Icel. t?lka to interpret, t?lkr an
   interpreter, Lith. tulkas an interpreter, tulkanti,
   tulk[=o]ti, to interpret, Russ. tolkovate to interpret, to
   talk about; or perhaps fr. OE. talien to speak (see {Tale},
   v. i. & n.).]
   1. To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as
      in familiar discourse, when two or more persons
      interchange thoughts.

            I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,
            walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat
            with you.                             --Shak.

   2. To confer; to reason; to consult.

            Let me talk with thee of thy judgments. --Jer. xii.
                                                  1.

   3. To prate; to speak impertinently. [Colloq.]

   {To talk of}, to relate; to tell; to give an account of; as,
      authors talk of the wonderful remains of Palmyra. ``The
      natural histories of Switzerland talk much of the fall of
      these rocks, and the great damage done.'' --Addison.

   {To talk to}, to advise or exhort, or to reprove gently; as,
      I will talk to my son respecting his conduct. [Colloq.]