rumour的意思|rumour的解释-里氏词典

rumour ['ru:mә]

n. 谣言, 传闻

vt. 谣传

rumour

[ noun ]

gossip (usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth

<noun.communication>

[ verb ]

tell or spread rumors

<verb.communication>

bruit

rumor

It was rumored that the next president would be a woman

Rumor \Ru"mor\, n. [F. rumeur, L. rumor; cf. rumificare,
rumitare to rumor, Skr. ru to cry.] [Written also {rumour}.]
1. A flying or popular report; the common talk; hence, public
fame; notoriety.

This rumor of him went forth throughout all Judea,
and throughout all the region round about. --Luke
vii. 17.

Great is the rumor of this dreadful knight. --Shak.

2. A current story passing from one person to another,
without any known authority for its truth; -- in this
sense often personified.

Rumor next, and Chance,
And Tumult, and Confusion, all embroiled. --Milton.

3. A prolonged, indistinct noise. [Obs.] --Shak.

The FNFC issue of convertible preference shares, a rescue operation, came as the consumer credit company announced a Pounds 32m pre-tax loss for the year. This, at least, was fact rather than rumour.
I really had nothing to hide, but these days all it takes is a whisper, a rumour and the child welfare people will be calling on you and asking a lot of questions.
In a brief stint of panic selling, shares and government bonds plummeted in the wake of a rumour that Mr Scalfaro was about to resign.
Trafalgar announced a Pounds 1.2bn bid for Northern last week. The Trafalgar rumour was only one factor boosting the UK market.
The rumour spread that previously opposed senators were switching to Yes votes in the hope that a large affirmative vote would give everyone political 'cover'.
And when the rumour mill is working flat out, it is a sure sign that the US takeover business is back in full swing. It has been five years since this sort of takeover mania hit the US financial markets.
Recessionary hard times have been made harder by the financial shortfall (at least Dollars 500,000 - Pounds 285,700 -according to rumour) of last May's Mozart festival.
Only recently the Liberation Daily, the Communist party's mouthpiece in the city, upbraided investors for being far too prepared to trade on rumour.
There was talk, denied by Glaxo, that bad news had leaked out of Monday's Novopharm appeal hearing, and rumour of a price war when SmithKline Beecham's anti-ulcer product comes off patent in May.
Nor have I said that I thought Lloyd's faced a solvency crisis. On numerous occasions last week I was asked my views on these matters and I have either refused to comment or I have denied the rumour that the questioner hoped to confirm.
The shares of many of these companies plunged on Nasdaq on Thursday as rumour spread that Blech would close. The assets taken over by Josephthal did not include Blech's inventory of stocks.
Since the fact only echoed the rumour, neither share was much affected. Lord Young, chairman of Cable and Wireless, was also in chipper mood when he reported a 30 per cent increase in half year profits.
A crackdown on the opposition continued yesterday with the jailing of a fourth person in connection with a rumour that President Daniel arap Moi plans to stage a coup to halt multi-party elections, AP reports from Nairobi.
The market rumour was that major players, overbought in recent bullish sessions, were trying to push up prices before selling; analysts expected heavy profit-taking to emerge in coming sessions.
Furthermore, Yorkshire surprised the US farmers by showing them its accounts. 'We displaced gossip and rumour with hard financial fact.
Yesterday's rumour suggested that the stock would be placed at a 10 per cent discount to the ruling market price.
'The announcement of the press conference made more of an impact on currencies than the actual cuts,' he said. Forty-five minutes before the announcement, the dollar rallied as investors bought on the back of the rumour.
The Washington rumour mills have been working overtime discussing which members of the US Treasury team would be thrown to the wolves as a result of the Whitewater affair.
The rumour just doesn't hold water, he now says.
The rate cut rumour, which gripped short sterling trading especially, made no waves outside fixed income markets and futures seemed largely locked in a pre-Budget paralysis.
Mr Mark Herbert, corporate communications manager at Lucas, described the reports as 'rumour and speculation'. Takeover speculation concerning Lucas has been rife for some time.
'Africa's most populous nation' may well have far fewer than the 110m to 120m generally estimated - nearer to 90m, rumour has it. Nigerians may react with equanimity to this revelation.
A fleeting rumour that she had voted against the government was scotched. Though the Billericay Tories fully supported Mrs Gorman's anti-Maastricht campaign, they were against any vote that might have brought down the government.
Scarcely a week goes by without some rumour of a Fiat tie-up with the Japanese.
Fact will replace rumour in a couple of weeks when the ITC publishes a list of formal franchise contenders for the 15 independent regions, though most of the uncertainties will remain.
While the rumour found little substance among analysts, few expressed surprise, Kingfisher being cash-rich and known to be casting its eye not only over the domestic situation but also Europe.
Its popularity was due partly to the re-emergence of the perennial bourse rumour that the company may be ripe for a takeover.
Cazenove refused to comment on the rumour. Leading pharmaceutical stocks performed well on the back of rises on Wall Street the previous day.
Computers are merely a rumour. In Tabora's Kitete Hospital, the largest in a region of 18m people, a shortage of Tanzanian staff has been bridged only by the voluntary services of an eight-man medical team from China.
Morgan Stanley, which has declined to comment on the rumour, was Stet's choice when the previous Italian government was looking for advisers last year.

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