grapevine是什么意思？

grapevine

英[ˈgreɪpvaɪn] 美[ˈɡrepˌvaɪn]

• n. 葡萄藤，谣传，流言，小道消息，消息的秘密来源；

复数：grapevines;

例句

• I heard on the grapevine that you’re leaving. 我听小道消息说你要离开。
• I heard about your success on the office grapevine. 我听到了办公室的传闻,说你取得了成功.
• He'd doubtless heard rumours on the grapevine. 他无疑是听到了小道消息。
• I had heard through the grapevine that he was quite critical of what we were doing. 我听到有传言说他对我们在做的工作非常不满。
• He'd doubtless heard rumours on the grapevine... 他无疑是听到了小道消息。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-SING
  小道消息;传闻
  If you hear or learn something on the grapevine, you hear it or learn it in casual conversation with other people.
  例句
  He'd doubtless heard rumours on the grapevine... 他无疑是听到了小道消息。 I had heard through the grapevine that he was quite critical of what we were doing. 我听到有传言说他对我们在做的工作非常不满。
• N-COUNT
  葡萄藤
  A grapevine is a climbing plant on which grapes grow.

英汉词典释义

• n.
  传闻, 小道消息
  I heard about your success on the office grapevine. 我听到了办公室的传闻, 说你取得了成功。
  通过小道消息；根据传闻
  I heard on the grapevine that you’re leaving. 我听小道消息说你要离开。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. gossip spread by spoken communication;
  "the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth"
  2. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries

行业词典

• 体育： 葡萄蔓状滑步；缠腿；