| 词汇 | rumor |
| 释义 | rumor noun[ C or U ] US(UKrumour)us/ˈruː.mɚ/uk /ˈruː.mər/ B2 an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person: Rumors are going around (the school) about Mr. Mason and his assistant. [ + that ]She's circulating/spreading rumors that the manager is going to resign. I heard a rumor that she'd been seeing Luke Harrison. rumor has it people are saying: Rumor has it (that) you're going to be the next managing director. Is it true? I heard a rumor that she's leaving, but apparently there's nothing in it. A rumor has surfaced that the company is about to go out of business. The president has consistently denied the rumors. He denied all responsibility for the rumors that have been circulating. The company moved quickly to quash rumors that it is losing money. Gossip and rumour a little bird told meidiom anecdotal bird bush telegraph dig for dirt dirt ear exposure hear (something) through/on the grapevineidiom hearsay lip on everyone's lipsidiom peddle rumoured say-so scandal scaremongering scoop snippety your ears must be burningidiom rumor | American Dictionaryrumor noun[ C/U ] (CdnBrrumour)us/ˈru·mər/ an unofficial, interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and that is communicated quickly from person to person: [ C ]Rumors about her are circulating at school. rumoredadjective[ not gradable ](CdnBrrumoured)us/ˈru·mərd/ The rumored plan to sell the company never actually took place. Examples of rumorrumor 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. See all examples of rumor 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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