有人别有用心地散布谣言，说他过去如何如何。

Some malicious rumours are circulating about his past.

《牛津词典》

如果你称某人为造谣者，那么你不赞同他们散布谣言的事实。

If you call someone a rumourmonger, you disapprove of the fact that they spread rumours.

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别散布谣言败坏我的名声。

Don't blacken my name by spreading rumours.

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He went around passing out rumors that his mother had actually been impregnated by the god Apollo, when he appeared as a snake in her bed.

他散布谣言说,阿波罗神化身为蛇，与他的母亲结合。

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