sweet-talkvt.
英 'swi:ttɔ:k | 美
中文vt. 奉承;用花言巧语劝诱\nvi. 奉承;用花言巧语劝诱;讲甜言蜜语
奉承;用花言巧语劝诱
vi. 奉承;用花言巧语劝诱;讲甜言蜜语
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sweet-talk (v.)Sweet-talk, 1935, from noun phrase; see sweet (adj.) + talk (n.). Earliest usages seem to refer to conversation between black and white in segregated U.S.
"I ain\\' gonna stay heah no longah. Don\\' nevah keer, ef I do git cotched--or die. Tha\\'s bettah than to stay heah an\\' listen to Maw Haney sweet-talk the white folks, whilst they drives us clean to the grave. ..." ["The Crisis," July 1935]
Latin had suaviloquens, literally "sweet-spoken."
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