| 词汇 | hearsay |
| 释义 | hearsay noun[ U ] uk /ˈhɪə.seɪ/ us /ˈhɪr.seɪ/ information that you have heard but do not know to be true: 传闻，道听途说 The evidence against them is all hearsay.对他们不利的证据都是传闻。 Gossip and rumour a little bird told meidiom anecdotal bird bush telegraph dig for dirt dirt ear exposure gossip hear (something) through/on the grapevineidiom lip on everyone's lipsidiom peddle reportedly say-so scandal scaremongering snippety swirl your ears must be burningidiom hearsay | American Dictionaryhearsay noun[ U ] us/ˈhɪrˌseɪ/ information you have heard that might or might not be true: The court cannot accept evidence based on hearsay and rumor. Examples of hearsayhearsay In addition, their reliability is doubtful since the newspaper admitted that they were based on hearsay. Far-reaching consequences have been ascribed to a policy decision that remains undocumented except for hearsay evidence in the popular conversation that surrounded the trials. Rather, the rumours of bloodsuckers indicate a flexible ' truth ' that is negotiated through talking, since hearsay is a kind of truth when people believe it. This in turn means that the admissibility of hearsay for the government must be strictly limited (189). Rather, they only "heard some news" - a hearsay experience. Some of the testimony may simply have constituted hearsay or slander. Data were elicited through production questionnaires in which the learners were instructed to verbally convey hearsay information to specified addressees. Almost all the evidence that was gleaned was hearsay. The quotative particle serves to quote reported speech and hearsay information. The few particulars provided in this account make it difficult to gauge the blend of fact, fabrication and hearsay. This web of communication is maintained through phone calls, letters, hearsay and rumour. Most referred to informal methods such as hearsay, or observed what had happened to students in the year above them. The cases of hearsay (or any other kinds of evidence) with perfectly reciprocal error risks must be few in number and very difficult to identify. An example might be a hearsay prohibition that does not allow exceptions for hearsay from unavailable declarants. They help us to contextualize in vivid detail a life shrouded in hearsay, myth, and outright propaganda. 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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