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1 conversazione
f conversation* * *conversazione s.f.1 conversation, talk; (fam.) chat: fare conversazione a tavola, to make table talk; una lunga conversazione telefonica, a long telephone conversation; quell'uomo ha una conversazione brillante, that man converses brilliantly; sostenere la conversazione, to keep the conversation going; sostenere una conversazione in inglese, to carry on a conversation in English2 ( discorso) talk: lo scrittore tenne una serie di conversazioni alla radio, the writer gave a series of talks on the radio* * *[konversat'tsjone]sostantivo femminile conversation ( con with)* * *conversazione/konversat'tsjone/sostantivo f.conversation ( con with); una conversazione privata a private conversation; conversazione radiofonica radio talk; argomento di conversazione talking point. -
2 languire
languish* * *languire v. intr.1 to languish (with sthg.); (struggersi) to pine (with, for sthg.): languire per la fame, la sete, to languish with hunger, thirst; languire in prigione, to languish in prison; languire nella miseria, to languish in poverty; languire d'amore per qlcu., to pine with love for s.o.; languire di nostalgia, to pine for home2 (scemare) to languish, to slacken, to flag, to drag; (comm.) to slack, to be slack: in quella commedia l'azione langue, the action of that play drags; la conversazione langue, the conversation is flagging; non lasciar languire la conversazione!, keep the conversation going!; gli affari languono, business is slack3 (di fiori) to droop4 (di luce) to fade.* * *[lan'gwire]1) (essere privo di energia) [ persona] to languish; [ economia] to be* sluggish; [ conversazione] to languish, to flag; [ luce] to grow* dim, to grow* faint2) (struggersi) to languish, to pinelanguire d'amore per qcn. — to languish for sb., to be pining with love for sb
* * *languire/lan'gwire/ [102](aus. avere)1 (essere privo di energia) [ persona] to languish; [ economia] to be* sluggish; [ conversazione] to languish, to flag; [ luce] to grow* dim, to grow* faint; languire in prigione to languish in prison2 (struggersi) to languish, to pine; languire d'amore per qcn. to languish for sb., to be pining with love for sb.
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