confabulate

1 an Alzheimer's support group in which caregivers can confabulate as well as commiserate

2 "Voices, I should say, if it were not quite impossible that it could be voices,—very low and hushed, as if a ghost were confabulating with another ghost about a quarter of a mile away."

3 The man has spent his entire career, womanizing, ripping people off, confabulating, lying, overtly cheating others and discriminating against minorities.

4 Then he noticed that the men engaged at the engine were confabulating.

5 Nor are their wanting outbreaks of genuine passion among the utmost extravagances of false sentiment—when momentarily heroes and heroines warm into men and women, and for a few sentences confabulate like flesh and blood.

6 After confabulating with the conductor of the train, we settled to remain this side of the bridge, and be shunted off till it was repaired, and tacked on to a train again for Winnipeg.

7 In this materialist view, people perceive God's existence because their brains have evolved to confabulate belief systems.

按照唯物主义者的上述观点，人们之所以感知上帝的存在是因为他们的大脑衍变出虚构的信仰体系。

8 He was told that these miscreants had a plan to surround his house that night and to shoot everybody in it, and at that very moment they were confabulating at a certain farmhouse.

9 Then Michael confabulated much longer and more fruitfully.

10 Eager for buzzworthy drama or Trump-bashing extravaganzas, the restless news media has been confabulating multiple scenarios for better or worse as the clock ticks.

11 Confronted during his trial with irrefutable evidence of having confabulated while trying to prove his innocence, the unflappable Tapie famously explained to the court “I lied in good faith”.

12 The purpose of confabulate depends on communicating an idea, resolve contradiction, promotional solidarity.

谈心的目的在于沟通思想，解决矛盾，增进团结。

13 But her linguistic left brain hadn’t seen Hitler, so when asked why she seemed upset, she confabulated: “I was thinking about a time when someone made me angry.”

14 Shawn Oakley has shown that it is easy to induce ChatGPT to create misinformation and even report confabulated studies on a wide range of topics, from medicine to politics to religion.

15 I know, teacher with her confabulate.

我知道, 老师又与她谈心了.

16 He needed a sample, had to bring back proof — if not for the cold gaze of Science, then at least to convince himself that he wasn't confabulating wonders in the dark.

17 Or rather a group of clusters, so placed that a dozen or more housewives could stand at their respective doors, very nearly facing one another, and confabulate without greatly raising their voices.

18 As we were thus confabulating and I was being entertained with native wine and sweets, I received a dreadful blow—that is to say, a moral one.

19 When you confabulate with him, you must insist on yourself.

你跟他说话的时候，要坚持己见。

20 See above for my attempt to confabulate a story linking the three random concepts of a cat, a fire engine and a chair.

1 聊天

chat crack chit-chat

2 谈论

rap remark discourse talk pipe bandy

3 谈话

talk discussion conversation crack speaking discourse converse convo gab colloquy natter adda korero speak yarn kibitz conversational interlocutory visit interview dialogue jaw-jaw say call rap make conversation chinwag word speech tale buck talking parlance disputation chin-wag confab conflab address observation tongue confabulation colloquize

4 闲谈

visit chat tattle chit-chat crack dirt chin gossip ramble schmooze natter gup claver yatter dish chitchat tittle palaver chaffer chin-wag yabber pipefest stovepipe chin music confabulatory meandrous by-talk jaw confabulation chinwag chin-wagging prittle-prattle talk prattle tittle-tattle make conversation

5 会谈

talk conference conversation dialogue powwow confabulation

6 虚构

fiction invention codology invent fable concoct elusory romantic pretend synthetic fictional made imaginative mythical unreal fictitious mythic fabled illusory made-up factoid illusive feigned fictive never-never mythologic pseud- romance concoction forgery unreality nonentity irreality manufacture imagine feign

7 谈心

commune coze

8 交谈

exchange rap talking discourse interchange converse talk speak