| 词汇 | rumour |
| 释义 | rumour noun[ C or U ] UK(USrumor)uk /ˈruː.mər/ us /ˈruː.mɚ/ B2 an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person: 流言;谣传;传闻 Rumours are going round (the school) about Mr Mason and his assistant.有关梅森先生和他助手的流言蜚语（在学校里）满天飞。 [ + that ]She's circulating/spreading rumours that the manager is going to resign.她到处散播谣言，说经理要辞职了。 I heard a rumour that she'd been seeing Luke Harrison.我听到有传言说她一直跟卢克‧哈里森在一起。 rumour has it people are saying: 大家都说，据谣传说，有传言说 Rumour has it (that) you're going to be the next managing director. Is it true?大家都说你将成为下一任总经理，这是不是真的？ I heard a rumour that she's leaving, but apparently there's nothing in it.我听到谣言说她要离开，但这显然纯属捏造。 A rumour has surfaced that the company is about to go out of business.有传言说这家公司要停业了。 The president has consistently denied the rumours.主席一直否认这些传言。 He denied all responsibility for the rumours that have been circulating. The company moved quickly to quash rumours that it is losing money. 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 hearsay lip on everyone's lipsidiom peddle say-so scandal scaremongering snippety swirl your ears must be burningidiom rumour | Business Englishrumour noun[ C ] UK(USrumor)uk /ˈruːmər/us an interesting story or piece of news that may or may not be true, that spreads quickly from person to person: a rumour thatI heard a rumour that she's leaving. A rumour has surfaced that the company is about to go out of business. rumour has it (that) used to say what many people are saying: Rumour has it that you're going to be the next managing director. Examples of rumourrumour I plan to address the political uses of gossip and rumour in the eighteenth century at greater length elsewhere. We have seen how rumours about the general strike persisted right from the middle of 1920 to 1921. 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. Within these contexts, the culture wars should strongly influence mass political behaviour; outside of them, such an effect should be largely a rumour. These rumours circulating in trusted family circles carry a weight that official declarations lack, wherever they come from. First, there was the ' hard news ' of the war : troop movements, casualties, rumours of a peace settlement. But already from that singular point of view relations, rumours and pretences are quite complex. Everyone in the world is spreading rumours to get him evicted. What did happen was the circulation of rumours regarding a possible second uprising echoing 1857. Although rumours are certainly told and retold, it appears that they disseminate by themselves, like contagious diseases. The regime was jumpy about the circulation of rumours and political prophecies. The rumours made the work of the intelligence department very difficult. Towards the end of his life rumours emerged about his exploits during his stay. But rumours of a burgeoning military relationship provoked the real paranoia. Fuelled by rumours circulating about the poor treatment of ' traitors ', some returnees also feared reprisal. See all examples of rumour 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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