scuttlebutt
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈskʌt.əl.bʌt]
- 美式音标 [ˈskʌt̬.əl.bʌt]
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基本解释
- n.飲水的容器；清水桶；船內飲水的地方；謠言；閑語
英汉例句
- Original: COO Tim Cook could be leaving Apple for the vacated CEO slot at HP, according to scuttlebutt that's going around.
原版謠言：據傳言，蘋果公司首蓆運營官（COO）Tim Cook 說他會離開蘋果去HP擔任CEO以填補該職位的空缺。 - With luck the reporters would follow up on the scuttlebutt without mentioning its source, assuring themselves that they had got the story through their “contacts”.
如果幸運的話，記者會跟進這一線索但不會提到消息來源，讓自己相信是通過他們自己的“線人”獲得線索的。 - Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device.
在蘋果著手研制平板設備而賣得火熱之前，似乎沒有一家主要的個人電腦生産商覺得用戶會需要功能有限、衹有觸摸屏的電腦設備。 - They don't know too much about actually what's going on other than scuttlebutt and what they've heard.
NPR: Web Site Offers One Stop for Real Estate Data - The scuttlebutt is that Sinofsky is going to show a preview of Windows 8.
FORBES: D9: From Microsoft Windows Pres Sinofsky, A Look At Windows 8 - Magee also recommends the proverbial water cooler as a productive place to gather gossip and scuttlebutt.
FORBES: 10 Questions You'd Better Ask Your Boss
雙語例句
權威例句
英英字典
- news or information that may or may not be true
- Scuttlebutt is rumours or gossip.