Nearly half of them prefer having a gossip face-to-face (48%), rather than on the phone (36%), by email (7%), or via text message (6%).

近半数的人(48%)喜欢面对面说闲话，超过喜欢通过电话说闲话的人(36%)，7%的人通过电子邮件说闲话，6%的人通过手机短信。

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Nearly half of us prefershavingsa gossip face-to-face (48%), rather than on the phone (36%), by email (7%), or via text message (6%).

近半数的人(48%)喜欢面对面说闲话，超过喜欢通过电话说闲话的人(36%)，7%的人通过电子邮件说闲话，6%的人通过手机短信。

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Negative gossip actually alters the way our visual system responds to a particular face, according to a study published online by the journal Science.

根据《科学》（Science）这一期刊在网上发布的一项研究，负面八卦实际上会改变我们的视觉系统对特定的人的响应

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Pictures of Cindy Crawford, Rihanna and Katy Perry without makeup have recently circulated widely in the gossip press, with writers concluding: it really is OK to wear nothing on your face.

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