grapevine
英 ['gre?pva?n]
美['ɡrepva?n]
- n. 葡萄樹(shù)；葡萄藤；小道消息；秘密情報(bào)網(wǎng)
低頻詞暢通詞匯TEM4
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?grapevines;
中文詞源
grapevine 葡萄藤，小道消息
來(lái)自18世紀(jì)初電報(bào)系統(tǒng)初問(wèn)世時(shí)，鋪設(shè)的線路雜亂無(wú)章形如葡萄藤而得名。由電報(bào)引申詞義小道消息。
英文詞源
- grapevine (n.)
- also grape-vine, 1736, from grape + vine. Meaning "a rumor; a secret or unconventional method of spreading information" (1863) is from the use of grapevine telegraph as "secret source of information and rumor" in the American Civil War; in reference to Southerners under northern occupation but also in reference to black communities and runaway slaves.
The false reports touching rebel movements, which incessantly circulated in Nashville, brings us to the consideration of the "grapevine telegraph"--a peculiar institution of rebel generation, devised for the duplex purpose of "firing the Southern heart," and to annoy the "Yankees." It is worthy of attention, as one of the signs of the times, expressing the spirit of lying which war engenders. But it is no more than just to say that there is often so little difference between the "grapevine" and the associated press telegraph, that they might as well be identical. ["Rosecrans' Campaign with the Fourteenth Corps," Cincinnati, 1863]
雙語(yǔ)例句
- 1. He'd doubtless heard rumours on the grapevine.
- 他無(wú)疑是聽(tīng)到了小道消息。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 2. I heard about your success on the office grapevine.
- 我聽(tīng)到了辦公室的傳聞,說(shuō)你取得了成功.
來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
- 3. I had heard through the grapevine that he was quite critical of what we were doing.
- 我聽(tīng)到有傳言說(shuō)他對(duì)我們?cè)谧龅墓ぷ鞣浅２粷M。
來(lái)自柯林斯例句
- 4. I heard ( about ) it through [ on ] the ( neighborhood ) grapevine.
- 我是經(jīng) ( 附近的 ) 謠傳 聽(tīng)到這事情的.
來(lái)自辭典例句
- 5. I heard through the grapevine that the minister is going to resign.
- 我聽(tīng)到小道消息,首相將辭職.
來(lái)自互聯(lián)網(wǎng)