资料来源 : pyDict
风闻,传闻传闻的
资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Hearsay \Hear"say`\, n.
Report; rumor; fame; common talk; something heard from
another.
Much of the obloquy that has so long rested on the
memory of our great national poet originated in
frivolous hearsays of his life and conversation.
--Prof.
Wilson.
{Hearsay evidence} (Law), that species of testimony which
consists in a a narration by one person of matters told
him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible
as testimony. --Abbott.
资料来源 : WordNet®
hearsay
adj : heard through another rather than directly; "hearsay
information"
hearsay
n : gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed
around by word of mouth [syn: {rumor}, {rumour}]