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基本英英词源记法近义反义Thesaurus例句
n.饮水的容器²⁰;清水桶⁴⁰;船内饮水的地方²⁰;谣言;闲语²⁰复数scuttlebutts
Noun:
a report often malicious about the behavior of other people;the divorce caused much gossip scuttle,凿孔，开孔，butt,酒桶，水桶，词源同 bottle.字面意思为饮水桶，原为航海俚语，指 船员聚集在船舱甲板饮水桶处闲聊，引申词义流言蜚语，谣言等。scuttle-butt⇒n.饮水的容器²⁰;清水桶⁴⁰;船内饮水的地方²⁰;谣言;闲语²⁰近义词 comment注释bucketC水桶buzz发出嗡嗡声gossip流言蜚语
noun.gossip
同义词 babble,blather,chatter,chitchat,grapevine,hearsay,meddling,prattle,rumor,talkback-fence talk,dirty laundry
反义词 truth
buzznoun gossip
comment,cry,grapevine,hearsay,news,report,rumble,rumor,scandal,talk,whisper
gossipnoun talk about others;rumor
account,babble,back-fence talk,blather,blether,buzz,calumny,chatter,chitchat,chronicle,clothesline,conversation,cry,defamation,dirty laundry,dirty linen,dirty wash,earful,grapevine,hearsay,idle talk,injury,malicious talk,meddling,news,prate,prattle,report,scandal,scuttlebutt,slander,small talk,story,tale,talk,whispering campaign,wire
hearsaynoun unsubstantiated information
clothesline,comment,cry,gossip,grapevine,leak,mere talk,noise,report,rumble,rumor,scandal,scuttlebutt,talk,talk of the town,word of mouth
reportnoun gossip, talk
advice,blow-by-blow,buzz,canard,chat,chatter,chitchat,comment,conversation,cry,dirt,earful,grapevine,hash,hearsay,intelligence,murmur,news,prating,rumble,rumor,scandal,scuttlebutt,small talk,speech,tattle,the latest,tidings,whispering,word
rumornoun talk about supposed truth
back-fence talk,breeze,bruit,canard,comment,cry,dispatch,earful,fabrication,falsehood,fame,fiction,gossip,grapevine,hearsay,hoax,innuendo,intelligence,invention,lie,news,notoriety,report,repute,rumble,scandal,scuttlebutt,story,suggestion,supposition,tale,tattle,tidings,whisper,wire,word
second-hand informationnoun indirect information
buzz,gossip,grapevine report,hearsay,rumor,scuttlebutt,talk,unconfirmed report,word of mouth The scuttlebutt in the office is that Tom is going to be fired.
办公室里有谣言说汤姆要被炒鱿鱼了。 xinmin
After he retired, Bob regularly stopped by his old office to visit his buddies and catch up on the latest scuttlebutt.
退休后，鲍勃正式停止了工作去造访他的伙伴们并跟上他们谈论的闲话。 hjenglish
All this scuttlebutt was laughed off as nonsense.
这些小道消息被当做一派胡言而一笑置之。 tdict
Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen- only computing device.
在苹果着手研制平板设备而卖得火热之前，似乎没有一家主要的个人电脑生产商觉得用户会需要功能有限、只有触摸屏的电脑设备。 yeeyan
Do you believe that scuttlebutt about Helen having an affair with her boss?
你相信关于海伦和她老板有恋情的谣言？ edu.sina.com.cn
Now I've heard a lot of scuttlebutt about a food shortage.
我听了很多关于食物短缺的闲话。 blogcn
The scuttlebutt now is that Warner will try to buy EMI from Citigroup, which seized it earlier this year from Terra Firma, another private- equity firm.
现在的流言是华纳试图从这个早年在陆地上建立起的独立资本集团花旗手中买下 EMI。 kekenet
With luck the reporters would follow up on the scuttlebutt without mentioning its source, assuring themselves that they had got the story through their“ contacts”.
如果幸运的话，记者会跟进这一线索但不会提到消息来源，让自己相信是通过他们自己的“线人”获得线索的。 ecocn |