gossip是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 流言蜚语; 爱传流言的人; vi. 闲聊, 传播流言蜚语，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it always looks up, from a distance, at the prison on the crag; and in the evening, when the work of the day is achieved and it assembles to gossip at the fountain, all faces are turned to-wards the prison.
-- How can the women and the children draw water!Who can gossip of an evening, under that shadow!Under it, have I said?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Well, say the few words, then, at once, and we'll gossip after dinner."
-- "And all my gossip is exhausted.
-- "What wicked gossip were you talking over there?"
-- Moreover, he felt certain that Yashvin, as it was, took no delight in gossip and scandal, and interpreted his feeling rightly, that is to say, knew and believed that this passion was not a jest, not a pastime, but something more serious and important.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In Mohalis, the suitable time for young men callers to depart is ten o'clock, but from eight till a quarter after eleven Martin did battle with Mrs. Fox; talked to her in two languages, an audible gossip and a mute but furious protest, while Madeline--she was present; she sat about and looked pretty.
-- He had only a little resented their gossip about his wickedness, only in evenings of slow depression had he meditated upon fleeing from them, but at their laughter he was black furious.
-- In the gossip at luncheon clubs, in discussions at the Parents' and Teachers' Association, in one frank signed protest sent to the Mayor, Martin was blamed for too strict an inspection of milk, for insufficiently strict inspection of milk; for permitting garbage to lie untouched, for persecuting the overworked garbage collectors; and when a case of small-pox appeared in the Bohemian section, there was an opinion that Martin had gone out personally and started it.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a whole month the town was full of gossip about this scandal, and it came to such a pass that Dounia and I dared not even go to church on account of the contemptuous looks, whispers, and even remarks made aloud about us.
-- 'Your mamma seems to have entirely for-gotten that I made up my mind to take you, so to speak, after the gossip of the town had spread all over the district in regard to your reputation.
-- Judge how grateful I must be to Marfa Petrovna for having repeated to Avdotya Romanovna such mysterious and interesting gossip about me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Barkis and myself had quite a gossip while you were out withDick.
-- But, what I have to do is tocome to results; which are short enough; not to gossip on all thehopeful circumstances I have observed, or I shall never have done.'
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With the faculty for severe logic sedulously cultivated by elderly women during long evenings of gossip till they can always find an hypothesis to fit all circumstances, she was wont to reason thus: "If Father Goriot had daughters of his own as rich as those ladies who came here seemed to be, he would not be lodging in my house, on the third floor, at forty-five francs a month; and he would not go about dressed like a poor man."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Some of the cold sense of bewilderment and disaster that had weighted her down since the Tarleton boys told hertheir gossip was pushed into the background of her mind, and in its place crept the fever that had possessed her for twoyears.
-- The married women called to nurses and small children and gathered their broods togetherto take their departure, and groups of girls started off, laughing and talking, toward the house to exchange gossip in theupstairs bedrooms and to take their naps.
-- She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, andshe prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
-- "No," said Scarlett frankly, "I won't, if you'll let me stay here and if you'll tell Mother that 'twas nothing but a lotof gossip from old cats."
-- In all her shelteredlife she had never seen evil and could scarcely credit its existence, and when gossip whispered things about Rhett andthe girl in Charleston she was shocked and unbelieving.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One day he said to her: 'Listen, I have a good idea, there is our gossip the carpenter, he shall make us a wooden calf, and paint it brown, so that it looks like any other, and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow.'
-- the woman also liked the idea, and their gossip the carpenter cut and planed the calf, and painted it as it ought to be, and made it with its head hanging down as if it were eating.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She had unloosed to him the stream of gossip about Tever-shall village.
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