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gossip

英 ['gɒsɪp] 美['ɡɑsɪp]

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近义词tattle talk chat

n. 小道传闻；随笔；爱说长道短的人
vi. 闲聊；传播流言蜚语

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词态变化

复数: gossips;第三人称单数: gossips;过去式: gossiped;现在分词: gossiping;形容词: gossipy;

助记提示

1. 谐音"搞事婆". 助记法:喜欢(说闲话)的人都是搞事婆.

中文词源

gossip 闲聊，流言蜚语

gos, 来自god, 上帝。sip, 姐妹，词源同sibling, sister. 即上帝的姐妹，通常指妇女们聚在一起闲聊，闲侃，引申词义流言蜚语。

英英释意

1. light informal conversation for social occasions

2. a report (often malicious) about the behavior of other people;: "the divorce caused much gossip"

3. a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others

英文词源

gossip: gossip: [OE] The Anglo-Saxons’ term for a ‘godparent’ was godsibb, a compound formed from god ‘god’ (just as in modern English godmother, godfather, etc) and sib ‘relative’ (a word of unknown origin from which modern English gets sibling). It denotes one’s ‘relative in God’, one’s ‘spiritual relative’. By Middle English times, however, it had come down in the world somewhat, to mean simply ‘close friend’, and by the 16th century it was being used for ‘one who indulges in idle talk’. The modern sense ‘idle talk’ developed from the verb in the 19th century.
=> god, sibling
gossip (n.): Old English godsibb "sponsor, godparent," from God + sibb "relative" (see sibling). Extended in Middle English to "a familiar acquaintance, a friend, neighbor" (c. 1300), especially to woman friends invited to attend a birth, later to "anyone engaging in familiar or idle talk" (1560s). Sense extended 1811 to "trifling talk, groundless rumor." Similar formations in Old Norse guðsifja, Old Saxon guþziff.
gossip (v.): "to talk idly about the affairs of others," 1620s, from gossip (n.). Related: Gossiped; gossiping.

考试真题

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it causes unpleasant experiences.

Don't let gossip turn into lies.

Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

In the author's opinion, many people like to gossip because it gives them a feeling of pleasure.

Many of our conversations are gossip, I have noticed three effects of gossip: It can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

Probably the worst type of gossip is the absolute lie.

Professor david Wilson explains that gossip is important in policing behaviors in a group.

Professor david Wilson thinks that gossip can help people watch their own behaviors.

The do's and don'ts conveyed through gossip will never show up in any student handbook.

The effects of gossip vary depending on the situation.

The more embarrassing or shameful the secret is, the juicier the gossip it makes.

The next time you feel the urge to spread the latest news, thing about why you want to gossip and what effects your "juicy story" might have.

Usually, gossip spreads information about a topic-breakups, trouble at home, even dropping out-that a person would rather keep secret.

实用场景例句

She's been gossiping about you.: 她一直在说你的闲话。

I can't stand here gossiping all day.: 我不能整天站在这儿闲聊啊。

a gossipy letter/neighbour: 闲聊式的信；爱说三道四的邻居

I love a good gossip.: 我喜欢闲聊天。

She's a great one for idle gossip (= she enjoys spreading stories about other people that are probably not true) .: 她很喜欢说别人闲话。

It was common gossip (= everyone said so) that they were having an affair.: 大家议论纷纷说他们之间关系暧昧。

The gossip was that he had lost a fortune on the stock exchange.: 有小道消息说他在股票交易中赔了一大笔钱。

Tell me all the latest gossip !: 把最新的小道消息都讲给我听听吧！

Don't believe all the gossip you hear.: 别对那些道听途说都信以为真。

He was a vicious gossip.: 他总是喜欢说别人的坏话。

Eva gossiped with Sarah...: 伊娃与萨拉在闲聊。

We spoke, debated, gossiped into the night...: 我们交谈着，争论着，闲聊着，一直持续到晚上。

There has been much gossip about the possible reasons for his absence...: 关于他缺席的原因有很多传言。

He spent the first hour talking gossip...: 他头一个小时都在闲聊。

They bring good and their commissions are not exorbitant.: 他们提供好消息,他们的手续费也不过分.

They spread a lot of tacky gossip about his love life.: 关于他的爱情生活,他们散播了许多不堪的闲言闲语.

She was not interested in the trivia of gossip.: 她对琐碎的流言蜚语不感兴趣.

Their friendship was turned to enmity through idle gossip.: 无聊的闲言碎语使他们反目成仇.

She had a good gossip with a neighbour over the garden fence.: 她隔着花园篱笆和邻居聊了很久.

You're nothing but an old gossip!: 你这个专门搬弄是非的老家伙!

The mischief arose from irresponsible gossip.: 这种不幸的事是因无聊的闲话而引起的.

Scandal and gossip are meat and drink to him.: 各种丑闻和流言蜚语是他最感兴趣的事.

We gossip about them and vice versa ( = they gossip about us ).: 我们谈论他们,他们也谈论我们.

She loves to peddle gossip round the village.: 她喜欢在村里到处说闲话.

She loves to gossip about her neighbours.: 她喜欢议论邻居的是非长短.

There has been much gossip in commercial circles as to his resignation.: 关于他的辞职,在商界一直有很多流言蜚语.

Most of the people who worshipped her, who read every tidbit about her in the gossip press and hung up pictures of her in their rooms, were not social snobs.: 崇敬她大多数的人不会放过每一篇报导她的八卦新闻,甚至在他们的房间中悬挂黛妃的画像, 这些人并非都是傲慢成性.

She discredited him with ugly gossip.: 她用难听的流言蜚语臭他.

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