第三人称复数：grapevines
名词小道消息; 葡萄藤; 谣传，流言; 消息的秘密来源
1. 葡萄藤：导演:戴维.弗兰克[David Frankel]:今年只有42岁的戴维.弗兰克出生于纽约,是一个集编导兼制作的全能电视人,他的作品包括:2000年制片兼编剧和导演的<<葡萄藤>>(Grapevine),1998年导演的<<性感城市>>(Sex and the City)和<<从地球到月球>>(From the Earth to the Moon),
2. 交叉步：向左侧交叉步(grapevine)两臂前后摆动. 右脚原地小跳四次,同时左腿摆至侧下举、右前下举、左侧下举、还原.
3. 小道消息：他不仅属于组织中不同的部门,而且在级别上他要高许多. 这样的交流就是越级交流. 非正式的网络前面讨论的网络都是集中在正式交通网络上. 现在让我们来看一看非正式的网络,特别是小道消息(Grapevine)的传播.
4. 侧交叉步：一般采用2个动作以4-8-4或12-4的组合方式,如:侧并步(step touch)和侧交叉步(Grapevine),可按以下方式组合:这里是指重复单侧身体动作以后才换到反方向.
1. 小道消息;传闻
If you hear or learn something on the grapevine, you hear it or learn it in casual conversation with other people.
e.g. He'd doubtless heard rumours on the grapevine...
他无疑是听到了小道消息。
e.g. I had heard through the grapevine that he was quite critical of what we were doing.
我听到有传言说他对我们在做的工作非常不满。
2. grapevine
2. 葡萄藤
A grapevine is a climbing plant on which grapes grow.
1. This allows you to control the spread of the news rather than rely on the office grapevine.
2. What was on the grapevine - about abuse of power as a possible factor in this accident - has turned out to be true.
3. Today mostly ordinary citizens live in these homes with their grapevine covered courtyards and rose sheds.
4. They struck me as just grapevine news that could not be verified or denied.
5. It has become the fastest and most convenient means of media, but at the same time a popular grapevine.
noun
1. gossip spread by spoken communication
e.g. the news of their affair was spread by word of mouth
Synonym: pipeline word of mouth
2. any of numerous woody vines of genus Vitis bearing clusters of edible berries
Synonym: grape grape vine