grapevine
英 [ˈɡreɪp.vaɪn]
美 [ˈɡreɪp.vaɪn]
记忆“grapevine”可以通过以下简单方法:
想象一根藤蔓,它弯曲并延伸,形成类似葡萄串的形状,这就是“grapevine”(葡萄藤)的样子。通过视觉形象帮助记忆这个词。
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grapevine 葡萄藤,小道消息来自18世纪初电报系统初问世时,铺设的线路杂乱无章形如葡萄藤而得名。由电报引申词义小道消息。
- 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]
- 1. He'd doubtless heard rumours on the grapevine.
- 他无疑是听到了小道消息。
- 2. I heard about your success on the office grapevine.
- 我听到了办公室的传闻,说你取得了成功.
- 3. I had heard through the grapevine that he was quite critical of what we were doing.
- 我听到有传言说他对我们在做的工作非常不满。
- 4. I heard ( about ) it through [ on ] the ( neighborhood ) grapevine.
- 我是经 ( 附近的 ) 谣传 听到这事情的.
- 5. I heard through the grapevine that the minister is going to resign.
- 我听到小道消息,首相将辞职.