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。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The stranger, muffled in hat, coat, gloves, and wrapper, came out impatiently to meet Fearenside's cart, while Hall was having a word or so of gossip preparatory to helping being them in.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was the village club, and the head-man and the watchman and the barber, who knew all the gossip of the village, and old Buldeo, the village hunter, who had a Tower musket, met and smoked.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From his half-itinerant life, also, he was a kind of travel-ing gazette, carrying the whole budget of local gossip from house to house, so that his appearance was always greeted with satisfaction.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They are as fond of gossip in Tahiti as in an English village, and one or two enquiries I had made for pictures by Strickland had been quickly spread.
-- For some minutes there was an exchange of courtesies and some local gossip about the island, the prospects of copra and the vanilla crop; then we came to the object of my visit.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At last, a gossip of Mrs Nubbles's, who had accompanied her to chapel on one or two occasions when a comfortable cup of tea had preceded her devotions, furnished the needful information, which Kit had no sooner obtained than he started off again.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Brangwen's house was one to which the gossip came naturally and inevitably.
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：
-- Mrs Bolton's gossip was always on the side of the angels.
-- For this reason, the gossip was humiliating.
-- She reminds me of a fish which, though dumb, seems to be breathing silent gossip through its gills, while ever it lives.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At the Kings' she daily saw all she want-ed, for the children's older sisters were just out, and Meg caught frequent glimpses of dainty ball dresses and bou-quets, heard lively gossip about theaters, concerts, sleighing parties, and merrymakings of all kinds, and saw money lav-ished on trifles which would have been so precious to her.
-- With that she marched off to bed, and there was no mer-ry or confidential gossip that night.
-- For, innocent and unsuspicious as she was, she could not help under-standing the gossip of her friends.
-- This little bit of byplay excited Annie's curiosity, but Meg was too tired for gossip and went to bed, feeling as if she had been to a masquerade and hadn't enjoyed herself as much as she expected.
-- Then she told the various bits of gossip she had heard at the Moffats', and as she spoke, Jo saw her mother fold her lips tightly, as if ill pleased that such ideas should be put into Meg's innocent mind.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mrs. Dashwood and Elinor then followed, and the others were left by themselves, to talk of the travellers, and feel their own dullness, till Mrs. Jennings was summoned to her chaise to take comfort in the gossip of her maid for the loss of her two young companions; and Colonel Brandon immediately afterwards took his solitary way to Delaford.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a long time this was her only companionship, and the gossip of the manager's wife formed the medium through which she saw the world.
-- As a result, a hum of gossip was set going which moved about the house in that secret manner common to gossip.
-- Carrie became wise in theatrical lore, hearing the gossip of little Lola.
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