■ talk to

字面上是“自己讲，对方听”，其实在美国英语不一定如此。双方对话，甚至主要是听对方讲，也可以是 talk to。

• Not until I talked to him did I know he was in trouble.直到我同他交谈，我才知道他遇到了麻烦。
• Police work is all the same. You talk to possible witnesses, your talk to the people involved, you talk to the victim.干警察这一行，事情总是千篇一律。同可能的证人谈谈哪，同有关的人谈谈哪，同受害人谈谈哪。
• The president rarely talks to any foreign leader to get his opinions or assessment of events. (Newsweek, Dec. 19, 2005, p.40)总统很少为了征求对方的意见或是听取对方对事态的评估而同外国领导人交谈。
• It was from talking to him that I began to learn the enormous possibilities of the broken enemy cypher. (F. W. Winterbotham, The Ultra Secret, p.24)正是通过同他交谈，我才开始认识到，破译敌方密码，有这么大的用处（当然主要是听他说，而不是对他说）。