rumour，groundless allegation，canard，hearsay，report ；

[例句] 有关财务丑闻的谣言接连不断地冒出来。 Rumours of financial scandals have come bubbling back to the surface.

[例句] 我们对这些子虚乌有的谣言从何而来很感兴趣。 We're interested in the source of these fictitious rumours.

rumour，hearsay，it is rumoured that，rumour has it that，renown ；

[例句] 据谣传，票卖到了300英镑。 Rumour has it that tickets were being sold for £300.

[例句] 我听到有谣传说主教打算离开. I've heard a whisper that the Bishop intends to leave.

folk rhyme，folk music，folk songs，ballad，Volkslied ；

[例句] 埃尔维斯认为自己是民谣歌手。 Elvis conceived of himself as a ballad singer.

[例句] 她教他读书,还教他唱两三首民谣, 弹着她的旧钢琴为他伴奏. She taught him to read and even to sing two or three little ballads, accompanying him on her old piano.

ballad，folk song，rustic song，nursery rhyme，chanson ；

[例句] 这本书读起来像歌谣。 The book reads like a ballad.

[例句] 他要从却林顿先生的记忆中把那首歌谣全部都挖出来. He would drag the rest of that poem out of Mr Charrington's memory.

purported ；

[例句] 对所有他们谣传的益处, 因为益生菌不是药品. Because, for all their purported benefits, probiotics are not medicine.

[例句] 所有这一切都是建筑在谣传的基础上的. Tout cela se fonde sur de faux bruits.

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