Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven 't said to that someone.

流言蜚语是你恶意或无意地向第三方谈论某人、某事，却没对事件本人说。

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But he isn't a gossip.

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"Nobody wants a supine, fully deferential BBC - but we do need to see that when the BBC says something, it isn't just recycling gossip, " he said.

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In the film, you really depict village life where people gossip and when you don't have but so many people around, that gossip can be very harmful because you lose your community.

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