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1. 闲话 can be a verb:
- 节目没有展示明星光环,不闲话明星生活,
- 前一個晚上，眾人還圍在灶火旁飲著酒閒話家常，
2. The current definition ("digression; gossip; complaint") makes 闲话 sound rather negative, but its default meaning is quite innocuous. One dictionary definition is 隨意地談話。例 「閒話陳年舊事」。[1] When it's something gossipy or otherwise negative, there are usually contextual clues – as in 在背後講閒話 or 閒話少說，多做正事.
Examples where 闲话 is not digression, gossip or complaint:
- 以前大家習慣待在家裡製作年菜，和親友閒話平靜度過，people used to spend their Lunar New Year's Eve at home, preparing a meal and chatting quietly with friends
- 在那兒，要老闆暫停幾分鐘跟訪客說說閒話，幾乎不大可能。Proprietors simply don't have time for a leisurely ten-minute chat.
- 美國羅斯福總統的「爐邊閒話」不知安撫和振奮了多少戰時的美國民心。 FDR's "fireside chats" comforted and cheered up who-knows-how-many Americans during wartime.
- 前一個晚上，眾人還圍在灶火旁飲著酒閒話家常， The previous night everyone had gathered by the stove drinking wine and chatting about everyday things,
- 「當初媽媽是和鄰居討論說，既然有學琴，就去考考看，如果考上了就去念，」沒想到一句閒話竟然成真， "It started when my mother was talking to a neighbor. She said that since I'd already studied piano, I might as well take the entrance exam. If I passed, I could study music." They never imagined that what they so casually talked about would actually happen.