scuttlebutt

常見(jiàn)例句

Original: COO Tim Cook could be leaving Apple for the vacated CEO slot at HP, according to scuttlebutt that's going around.
原版謠言：據(jù)傳言，蘋(píng)果公司首蓆運(yùn)營(yíng)官（COO）Tim Cook 說(shuō)他會(huì)離開(kāi)蘋(píng)果去HP擔(dān)任CEO以填補(bǔ)該職位的空缺。
With luck the reporters would follow up on the scuttlebutt without mentioning its source, assuring themselves that they had got the story through their “contacts”.
如果幸運(yùn)的話(huà)，記者會(huì)跟進(jìn)這一線(xiàn)索但不會(huì)提到消息來(lái)源，讓自己相信是通過(guò)他們自己的“線(xiàn)人”獲得線(xiàn)索的。
Before scuttlebutt that Apple was working on a tablet started to heat up, no major PC manufacturer seemed to think that consumers wanted a general-purpose, touchscreen-only computing device.
在蘋(píng)果著手研制平板設(shè)備而賣(mài)得火熱之前，似乎沒(méi)有一家主要的個(gè)人電腦生産商覺(jué)得用戶(hù)會(huì)需要功能有限、衹有觸摸屏的電腦設(shè)備。

They don't know too much about actually what's going on other than scuttlebutt and what they've heard.
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The scuttlebutt is that Sinofsky is going to show a preview of Windows 8.
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Magee also recommends the proverbial water cooler as a productive place to gather gossip and scuttlebutt.
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