| 词汇 | example_english_rumor |
| 释义 | Examples of rumorThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Clearly, then, such rumors provided excuses for some young wives of military men to stray from their marriages. In this setting, rumors circulated among the female students who were trying to make sense of the formal awards ceremony with the sultan. In the absence of any prior public notice or explanation, rumors filled the information void once the gathering and dispatching of students began. With the rumor, creditors immediately surrounded the bakery trying to collect their debts. Amid the intermittent drought conditions of the late 1890s, people often focused their rumors particularly on the contamination of local water supplies. None of this, however, ever got beyond the proposal stage, or the rumor mill, to become actual policy. The widespread rumors of his illiteracy seem to be at least partially true. It can be positive (scotch a rumor) or negative (scotch their fun). Contemporary accounts speak frequently of wild rumors and inexplicable speculations which seem to have pervaded this incident. These rumors are absurd and nonsensical, as the government has no intention whatsoever of baptizing us. By that more sophisticated standard, the adaptationist research program has done quite well in recent decades, despite premature rumors of its untimely demise. The rest of the population sensed the documents' content through leaks and rumors and derived a practical lesson. In many cases, in fact, popular rumors embodied connections between these different, overlapping state manipulations of local ecologies. As evidenced by the rumors that spread throughout groups of ex-soldiers, many askaris saw membership as the key to maintaining elite status. We certainly have to dispel the rumor that functional languages are for teaching compilers, interpreters, and type systems. Popular perspectives on these various developments were expressed in prophecies and rumors in many locales. In other words, it was rumored that union officials received kickbacks from the retailers. First, it was long rumored that the building of nuclear power plants was politically corrupt and involved huge kickbacks and commissions. All we have seen of the alleged plot itself, however, is the reports of the rumors and the calls for investigation cited. His published profiles were incomplete, and the analysis was inaccurate or based on fanciful assumptions, rumors, and isolated intelligence and police reports. But the rumors of its demise (and, arguably, about the achievements of the new) have been greatly exaggerated. There were even rumors at that time of trafficking in the tissue of aborted fetuses. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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