Then news came that Dean was out of reform school and was coming to New York for the first time; also there was talk that he had just married a girl called Marylou.

然后消息传来说安被寄宿学校开除了,将第一次来纽约;,还有传言说他刚和一个叫玛丽露的姑娘结婚了。

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Or maybe you heard a rumor about a friend

又或者你听说了一个朋友的传言，

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It's that passive sense: "There was talk." Who's talking? We don't know.

这里用了被动语态，有传言说，谁传的，我们不知道。

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Let's say that you heard a rumor.

假如你听到了一个传言。

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But there are a variety of things about people who can communicate from the dead or ghosts or seances or what have you.

但仍有很多关于,有人能和死人,或鬼魂,或者降神会交流之类的传言

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There had been a rumor that female incendiaries, had been setting fire to fancy houses and had been burning down the Bank of France.

有传言说女纵火犯们,到处放火焚烧妓院,还烧毁了法兰西银行

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It's all just passed down from word to mouth.

只是民间的传言罢了

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Have you heard about the rumor?

你听说那个传言了吗？

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And it's been passed around.

这个传言四处散播。

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You could use the "Have you" pattern to ask another friend if they had heard the same rumor.

你可以用“Have you”句型来问你另外一个朋友是否听到了这个传言。

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And so this rumor was part of the fear of "upitty women" putting forth demands, and they squished them like grapes, and they hauled them off and shot them.

这一传言部分的体现了,对"不知天高地厚的女人们"的恐惧,正是它导致了对她们的审判,他们像榨葡萄一样挤烂她们,强行拘捕她们然后枪决

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