n.(名词)

1. 流言蜚语，闲话，街谈巷议
2. 爱说长道短的人，爱传流言蜚语的人，饶舌者，碎嘴子，爱闲聊的人
3. 社会新闻，小道传闻
4. 闲谈，闲聊，聊天
5. 随笔，漫笔
6. 密友
7. 搬弄是非者

v.(动词)

1. 聊天，闲聊
2. 传播流言蜚语
3. 闲谈是非，搬弄是非，说三道四
4. 漫谈式地写作
5. 说闲话

n.(名词)

1. [U]流言,闲话 conversation or report about the details of other people's behavior and private lives
2. [C]爱拨弄是非的人 a person who likes talking about other people's private lives
3. [C]闲谈,聊天 conversation including gossip

v.(动词)

1. vi. 传播流言,说长道短 talk gossip

Noun:

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

Verb:

1. wag one's tongue; speak about others and reveal secrets or intimacies;

   "She won't dish the dirt"
   

2. talk socially without exchanging too much information;

   "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
   

1.流言蜚语；小道消息；闲话
gossip is informal conversation, often about other people's private affairs.

e.g. He spent the first hour talkinggossip...
他头一个小时都在闲聊。
e.g. There has been muchgossip about the possible reasons for his absence...
关于他缺席的原因有很多传言。

2.闲聊；说长道短
If yougossip with someone, you talk informally, especially about other people or local events. You can also say that two peoplegossip .

e.g. 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。
e.g. Eva gossiped with Sarah...
伊娃与萨拉在闲聊。

3.爱说长道短的人
If you describe someone as agossip, you mean that they enjoy talking informally to people about the private affairs of others.

e.g. He was a viciousgossip.
他总是喜欢说别人的坏话。

1. 闲话：每天发生的事件和遭遇被纳入人们的日常叙事,这些尖刻的评判和彼此间终生的熟稔构成了所谓农村的闲话(gossip). 有时候故事暗含着道德判断,不过这个判断--公正抑或偏颇--都只是一个细节:作为一个整体,故事的讲述带着某种宽容,

There has been much gossip in political circles.

政界里有许多流言蜚语。

I loathe people who spread malicious gossip.

我讨厌那些散布充满恶意的流言蜚语的人。

He's a terrible gossip.

他专爱说人闲话。

I have no time to engage in gossip.

我无暇闲聊。

Can you put an end to that kind of gossip?

你能不能别再说那种闲话?

You call a friendly conversation idle gossip?

您把友谊的闲谈当作空话吗?

She loves to gossip to her neighbors.

她喜欢议论邻居们的是非长短。

Don't gossip about a person's right and wrong behind his back.

不要背地里说别人长短。

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.

1. It's common gossip that they're having an affair.
   大家都说他们之间关系暧昧。
2. You're nothing but an old gossip!
   你这个专门搬弄是非的老家伙!
3. She had a good gossip with a neighbor over the garden fence.
   她隔着花园篱笆和邻居聊了很久。

用作不及物动词S+～(+A)

1. She can spend a whole day gossiping with her neighbors.
   她能一整天都跟邻居们说长道短。

gossip about〔of〕( v.+prep. )

说…的闲话talk about (sb/sth), often spreading stories which may not be true
gossip about〔of〕 sb

The widow gossiped about her neighbors.

这个寡妇说邻居的闲话了。

The women stood in the market-place, gossiping about this and that.

那些女人站在集市上说三道四。

动词+～

• gossip">believe the gossip听信流言
• gossip">spread gossip散布流言

形容词+～

• gossip">friendly gossip友好的闲聊
• gossip">common gossip大家议论的话题
• gossip">silly gossip愚蠢的闲话

～+介词

• gossip%20about%20sb">gossip about sb关于某人的闲话

～+副词

• gossip%20garrulously">gossip garrulously无休止地闲聊

～+介词

• gossip%20about%E3%80%94of%E3%80%95">gossip about〔of〕说某人的闲话,聊天

• Edgar is a dreadful gossip..I recommend you never tell him anything private.

  出自：E. F. Benson

• He imagined they were gossiping about him.

  出自：O. Manning

v.(动词)

1. gossip用作动词时意思是“说闲话”,指在背后说别人的坏处,其后常接介词about或of。

• ☆ 直接源自古英语的godsibb：God (神） + sibb (亲戚），意为教父或教母。