| 词汇 | gossiping |
| 释义 | gossiping present participle ofgossip gossip verb[ I ] uk /ˈɡɒs.ɪp/ us /ˈɡɑː.səp/ B2 to talk about other people's private lives: （对别人的隐私）说长道短，传播流言蜚语 Stop gossiping and do your work.别再闲扯了，继续干点活去。 gossip aboutPeople have started to gossip about us.人们已经开始说我们的闲话了。 Compare natterverbUKinformal She's been gossiping and hasn't done a stroke of work all morning.她整个上午都在闲聊，一点儿活都没干。 Janet spends hours gossiping on the phone. I wouldn't tell her your secrets - you know how she likes to gossip. It's not only the women around here who like to gossip, you know! The old folk sit gossiping in the village square for most of the morning. Revealing secrets & becoming known anti-secrecy backchannel bare bare your heart/soulidiom be the talk of somewhereidiom blow someone's coveridiom blow/take the lid off somethingidiom declassify divulge hold huddle kiss put the word outidiom rat rat on someone/something reintroduce revealingly state's evidence surface unravel Examples of gossipinggossiping In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. In the old-age home, residents engaged in a language game based on labelling, name-calling, gossiping and the like. The volume of a man's voice while telling a story is the same as that used by women who are 'gossiping'. They are mixtures of marketed goods, public goods, goods produced within the household, and time and resources spent on education, politics, networking, even gossiping. Among women from one ground at an indoor stomp dance in 1997, approximately two-thirds of the time was spent 'gossiping'. All were widowed and would spend days together cooking outside for their grandchildren, gossiping and joking with one another. In fact, "gossiping about history" is normally a generic tautology. People lived together in small groups and spent a lot of time gossiping with and about each other. Because of their unusual or deprived childhood, their gossiping or criminal behaviour needs to be excused. But rather than gossiping about the appearance of men, men also gossip about sports, cars, or technology, and so on. Jokes, then, are humorous observations about the kinds of topics that get discussed thoroughly by women when 'gossiping'. From the riveting to the mundane, much of adult conversation concerns talk about the absent : for example, scheming in world politics, planning trips abroad, or gossiping with friends. First, they can be gossiped about because of their implied intimacy, and second, they can be accused of gossiping about others because of their closeted social interaction. Women accept men's comments via jokes as additions to the debate, which provides yet another source of information and voice in the discussion (whether 'visiting' or 'gossiping'). But this is what this place is all about—gossiping with those who pass. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I saw the villages active with community life, houses being built, housewives shopping, gossiping on the street corner, children playing in the school grounds. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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