Little did I know there was a name for what I had done: medium talk. “What kind of questions would you ask to make medium talk, instead of small talk?” asked user Sentinel_P, and the query garnered more than 3,500 comments.
我并不知道自己的做法还有一个名字:中度聊天(medium talk)。一位名为Sentinel_P的用户在网站上提问:“如果你想展开一场中度聊天(medium talk)而不是闲谈聊天(small talk),你会问些什么问题呢?”这个提问贴得到了3500多条回复。
The question got the reaction it did because it walks a tricky line: Everyone has an intuitive sense of what “medium talk” might mean, but the term isn't fully defined. That tension leads to some fascinating answers. Most people seem to interpret the question the way you'd expect — how do you lift a fleeting and likely unimportant-in-the-grand-scheme conversation up out of dulls-ville so that you'll at least remember or learn something from it?
这个问题之所以能得到这么多回复,是因为它问得非常巧妙:每个人都能从直觉上理解“中度聊天”一词可能的含义,但是这个术语又没有准确的释义。这个小矛盾带来了一些精彩的答案。大多数人好像是以你期待的方式阐释了这个问题——你怎样才能让短暂的假大空聊天摆脱无聊模式,至少聊完了能记住点什么或者学到点东西?
Who knows? Maybe medium talk will even lead to large talk if you get trapped next to the right person at the right time.
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