外面传得风言风语的
“people are spreading rumors.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
只是有些事
“It's just that”
外面传得 风言风语 的
“people are spreading rumors.”
什么？
“Like what?”
“You need to know what people are whispering behind your back.”
Rumors ('风言风语') carry severe social consequences in close-knit communities where public reputation determines standing and honor.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
groundless rumors; slanderous gossip
A very common four-character idiom describing irresponsible, spreading rumors.
spread so widely that; rumored to the extent that
Used with the complement marker '得' to describe the manner or severity of spreading gossip.
Functions as a sentence-final particle asserting the ongoing reality of the situation.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“But with all the rumors outside right now,”
“It is all anyone is talking about.”
“There have indeed been some rumors lately.”
“As for rumors on the streets,”
“There are often rumors in the palace”
“to string together farfetched rumors.”
“rumors and pressure.”
“Are we to kill a man who saved General Chu,”
“(spread through Chang'an.)”
“but the rumors are being spread”
“there were rumors in the Power Supply Bureau.”
“when you came back happily for the New Year.”
“that today's rumors”
“These are all rumors.”