A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
— John Tudor  ·  Gossip

📚 名句词汇解析

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stand [stænd] 词频1 词根: 站立
n. 台，看台;立场;停止;抵抗; vi. 站立，起立;竖直放置;保持看法;停滞; vt. 使站立;忍受;抵御;承担责任; vt.& vi. 站立，（使）直立，站着;
"The crowd had to stand behind barriers."
人群只好站在障碍物后面。
近义：suffer, take, tolerate, bear, stick, endure 反义：placate, quit, remit, soften, subside, yield
around [ə'raʊnd] 词频1
adv. 大约;旋转;到处，四处;在周围; prep. 围绕;在附近;前后，左右;在…周围;
💡 前缀:a 表示加强意义
"He arrived around five o'clock."
他大约是五点钟到的。
近义：about, approximately, loosely, nearly, roughly, thereabout
rumor ['rʊmɚ] 词频3
n. <美>传闻;[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷; vt. 谣传;传说;
💡 后缀:or 表示物 网友： 补充：谐音---谣言会“辱没”（rumor）人。
"Rumor has it that he is having an affair with his secretary."
谣传他和他的秘书有暧昧关系.
近义：rumour, spread, hearsay, murmur, babbling, scuttlebutt 反义：measure, moderation, prudence, temperance, wariness, wisdom

🏷 更多「Gossip」名言

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
— Will Rogers
"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them."
— Cato the Elder
"Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them."
— Unknown
"To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)"
— Anonymous
"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
— Will Rogers
"Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?"
— Phocion
"Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships."
— Unknown
"No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue."
— Sir Philip Sidney
"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
— William Shakespeare
"May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say."
— Anonymous
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