confab

There's nothing wicked about the smart city confab London is hosting this week.

本周在伦敦召开的智能城市讨论会并没有任何恶意。

Or even a more modest confab like a techcrunch disrupt.

不过，这次大会根本没有像美国得克萨斯州举行的西南偏南大型音乐节（South by Southwest）那么轰动爆棚，甚至也赶不上像知名科技博客网站TechCrunch举办的Disrupt这种更正统的会议。

Nowadays, these confabs are just as likely to break out in the coffee room, alongside the photocopier, or while waiting to use the fax machine.

现在，这样的寒暄或闲聊可能会发生在咖啡间、复印机旁，或者等候使用传真机的间隙。

The domain confab in vegas is like any other trade conference: the real intrigue happens at cocktail hour.

在拉斯维加斯，域名交流会就像其他的商贸会议一样：真正的阴谋在喝鸡尾酒时发生。

Ulukaya's win was a surprise only because many of the 1, 000 attendees at the professional services firms' annual confab guessed that the judges successful entrepreneurs from across the globe wouldn't bestow the top award on a U.S. founder.

乌鲁卡亚的成功之所以令人吃惊，是因为参加会议的1000名与会者中，有许多人猜测，由来自各国的成功企业家组成的评审团不会把这个奖项授予美国创业者。

You could see these two roaming about all day long with their heads close together in an everlasting confab.

你能看到这两个人整天逛来逛去，头挨着头没完没了地密谈。

The annual tech confab officially started today.

今天，消费电子展这个年度技术会议正式开始。

The New Yorker catches Summers nodding off again in a confab with officials in Detroit.

《纽约客》还拍到萨默斯在底特律跟官员开会时又打起了盹.

EXAMPLE: My colleagues at the office and I usually have a little confab for a few minutes every morning.

我和办公室的同事通常每天早上都要闲谈几分钟。

It's a secret confab they don't want me to hear, I suppose.

我看一定是不想让我听见的保密话.

It's hard to gauge exactly what gets accomplished in most of those confabs, of course, but VoloMetrix did look at how much multitasking goes on.

当然，我们很难估算大多数会议实现的成果，但VoloMetrix研究了会议期间与会者执行多重任务的情况。

We would see them confab in that room.

我们常看到他们在那房间里闲谈.

the annual movie confab in Cannes

在戛纳举行的电影年会

Let's confab a bit about that idea.

咱们来讨论一下那条意见.

EXAMPLE: I attended a big industrial confab last week and had a lot of useful conversations with potential new customers.

我上周参加了一个大型产业会议，与潜在新客户进行了很多有益的交谈。