rumor是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 传闻， 谣言，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。
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After the first surprise of the intelligence had a little abated, a rumor was spread through the entrenched camp, which stretched along the margin of the Hudson, forming a chain of outworks to the body of the fort itself, that a chosen detachment of fifteen hundred men was to depart, with the dawn, for William Henry, the post at the northern extrem-ity of the portage.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- However vague the citizens were as to the nature of his wickedness, once they lost faith in him they lost it completely and with joy, and they welcomed an apparently spontaneously generated rumor that he had betrayed his benefactor, their beloved Dr. Pickerbaugh, by seducing Orchid.
-- It was two nights afterward that there writhed into the Ice House a rumor that George William Vertigan was dead.
-- IV Through both the economico-literary and the Rolls-Royce section of Joyce's set the rumor panted that there was a new diversion in an exhausted world--going out to Martin's laboratory and watching him work, and being ever so silent and reverent, except perhaps when Joyce murmured, "Isn't he adorable the way he teaches his darling bacteria to say 'Pretty Polly'!"
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《复活》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he thought of the previous evening, spent at the Korchagins, a wealthy and influential family, whose daughter, rumor had it, he was to marry, he sighed, and throwing away the butt of his cigarette, he was on the point of taking another from the silver cigarette holder, but changed his mind.
-- Nekhludoff recalled a rumor that for the very reason that Shenbok squandered his own wealth and was inextricably in debt, he was appointed guardian over a rich old spendthrift, and was now evidently obtaining an income from the guardianship.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He did not know the rumor current about Mme.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rumor had it that Captain Butler was one of the best pilots in the South and that he was reckless and utterlywithout nerves.
-- The rumor which had been creeping about underground was now being openly discussed, that Rhett Butler notonly ran his own four boats and sold the cargoes at unheard-of prices but bought up the cargoes of other boats and heldthem for rises in prices.
-- Rumor had it that there wouldbe heavy fighting up there near the boundary between Georgia and Tennessee.
-- "I believe that rumor has it that Sherman has over one hundred thousand men, now that his reinforcements havecome up?"
-- There's a rumor floating about to that effect The rumor arrived on the train from Milledgeville this morning.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During the next few minutes the rumor that Amy March had got twentyfour delicious limes (she ate one on the way) and was going to treat cir-culated through her 'set', and the attentions of her friends became quite overwhelming.
-- But the chief grievance that rankled in her soul, and gave an excuse for her unfriendly conduct, was a rumor which some oblig-ing gossip had whispered to her, that the March girls had made fun of her at the Lambs'.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included; why it is that a universal proverb says of them, that they tell no tales, though containing more secrets than the Goodwin Sands; how it is that to his name who yesterday departed for the other world, we prefix so significant and infidel a word, and yet do not thus entitle him, if he but embarks for the remotest Indies of this living earth; why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals; in what eternal, unstirring paralysis, and deadly, hopeless trance, yet lies antique Adam who died sixty round centuries ago; how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.
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