palaver [pəˈlævɚ, -ˈlɑvɚ]

例句:

• We don't want all that palaver, do we?
  我们不想那样小题大做，不是吗？
  
• What's all the palaver about?
  这些鸡毛蒜皮的事到底是为什么？
  
• What a palaver there was about paying the bill !
  付账的事真费口舌呀！
  
• What a palaver...before the coach left! Chattering away, rushing around.
  来自P. Bailey
• All the palaver of the court...the 'Yes m'lud' and 'No, m'lud'.
  来自Jo Grimond
• Eighteenth-century shoppers may have been feverish, but at least purchasing being such a palaver slowed things down a bit.
  来自THETIMES