如果幸运的话，记者会跟进这一线索但不会提到消息来源，让自己相信是通过他们自己的“线人”获得线索的。

With luck the reporters would follow up on the scuttlebutt without mentioning its source, assuring themselves that they had got the story through their "contacts".

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据内部知情人士线报，流鼻血这条线索在本季至关重要。

According to a source close to the show, "the nosebleeds will be a big story this season."

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对线索的查证可以采取立线查证的方法，主要查证其来源、真实性和因果关系，然后进行静态和动态处理。

Verification of the clue can be implemented by way of clue investigation, mainly examining its source, reality and causality before being processed by means of static and dynamic state.

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