tittle-tattle

noun

1. 闲聊；飞短流长；张家长李家短
   unimportant talk, usually not true, about other people and their lives

1. N-UNCOUNT 闲聊;胡侃;流言蜚语
   If you refer to something that a group of people talk about as tittle-tattle, you mean that you disapprove of it because it is not important, and there is no real evidence that it is true.
   1. ...tittle-tattle about the private lives of minor celebrities.
      有关二三流名人隐私生活的闲言碎语

1. He is the kind of man who would avoid becoming involved in tittle-tattle at all costs.
   他是个怕惹是生非的人。
2. Well-directed tittle-tattle may easily causes its victim to lose his or her livelihood.
   针对性很强的聊天，很容易使受害者丢掉饭碗。
3. In lesser hands Ms Nasar's story might have degenerated into a series of pen portraits: tittle-tattle for the middlebrow.
   如果娜萨女士文笔稍差一些，这些故事就要成了一堆钢笔肖像速写，成了关于一帮知识界平庸人物的杂淡。
4. British showbiz writers searched for tittle-tattle on Robbie Williams'love life and speculated endlessly about the demise of the hit girl band The Spice Girls ( news-web sites).
   英国的娱乐作家在找寻有关罗宾·威廉斯的爱情生活的无聊传闻，而且无休止推测热门女子乐队辣妹何时解散。
5. The reason that the art of tittle-tattle is dying out has nothing to do with us becoming nicer, as we are surely just as horrible as they always were.
   闲话的艺术正在消亡，其原因不是人们变得更加高尚了人们当然还是一如既往地可憎。
6. By the end of the day on Wednesday, appetite for big blocks of CCB stock was waning, in inverse correlation to the tittle-tattle. At best, an everyday tale of cock-up over conspiracy.
   截至周三收盘时，对建行大宗股份的胃口正在消退，与传言成反比。在最好的情况下，这是一个搞砸（而不是阴谋）的故事。

noun

1. light informal conversation for social occasions

   Synonym:    chitchatchit-chatchit chatsmall talkgabgabfestgossipchin wagchin-wagchin waggingchin-waggingcauserie

verb

1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

   Synonym:    chatterpifflepalaverpratetwaddleclackmaunderprattleblabgibbertattleblabbergabble