Rumour
[ru:mә]
解釋/意思:
n. flying report; a current story.—v.t. to report: to circulate by report.—adj. Ru′morous vaguely heard.—n. Ru′mourer (Shak.) a reporter a spreader of news.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Thus rumour thrives in the capital, and will not go down into Lincolnshire. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- As no scandalous, ill-natured rumour had reached her, it was impossible for her to understand much of this strange letter. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- I'll tell him that, said Mr. Yorke, when his foreman mentioned the rumour; and if _that_ does not bring him home full gallop, nothing will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This last rumour gradually got strength. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- These latter, the rumour had it, they sacrificed to some terrible god in an orgy which ended in the eating of their victims. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I gathered more from rumour, and I made out the rest by instinct. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I know it to be unnecessary and calculated to awaken speculation, doubt, rumour, I don't know what, in the house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In the evening her grandfather came indoors with a rumour that Yeobright had removed that day from Alderworth to the old house at Blooms-End. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The Roman citizen got his political facts from rumour and the occasional orator. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Nathaniel Pipkin had ocular demonstration of the fact, that the rumours of old Lobbs's treasures were not exaggerated. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- For two weeks no word has come back from them, but rumours were rife that they had met with a terrible disaster and that all were dead. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- Throughout 1916 she remained largely on the defensive, and there were rumours of a separate peace with Germany. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- There were even rumours that he had left New York with Fanny Ring; but Mrs. Beaufort's attitude made the report seem improbable. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Martin had heard certain rumours; it struck him that it might be amusing to make an experiment. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Every one had heard the rumours in question, and he scorned to confirm a tale that was already common property. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- We heard different rumours about him from time to time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I had heard vague rumours, little more than legends they were, during my former life on Mars; but never had I seen them, nor talked with one who had. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The Court sits tremulous, powerless: varies with the varying temper of the Esplanade, with the varying colour of the rumours from Paris. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Mrs. Helstone was hardly under the sod when rumours began to be rife in the neighbourhood that she had died of a broken heart. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It began to be rumoured that the jury would be out a long while. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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