People often think of gossipers as harmless, but cruel lies can cause pain.

们通常认为爱讲八卦的无害的，但残忍的谎言会引起痛苦。

I mean, the gossiper is a writer in a way, you know?

我说，某种程度上，八卦者也算个作家，对吧？

Do you have a favorite gossiper or gossip example?

你有没有特别喜欢的八卦物或八卦实例？

His best-selling book, Thinking Fast and Slow, was written not for decision-makers but for critics and gossipers.

他的畅销书《快思慢想》并不写给决策者的，而写给批评家和八卦士的。

Negroes are tireless gossipers, which, of course, is but a roundabout way of saying that they are human.

黑不知疲倦的八卦者，当然，这只说他们的迂回方式。

They were not just disapproving; they also said they would be more likely to give the gossiper lower performance ratings and to recommend bonus reductions.

他们不仅表示不赞成，他们还表示自己更有可能给八卦者打更低的绩效评级，并建议减少奖金。

And again, we've only got the sources that we have, which primarily are going to be Suetonius, who's a bit of a gossiper.

而且， 我们只有现有的资料，主要苏埃托尼乌斯的记载，他有个八卦记者。

I have noticed three effects of gossip: it can hurt people, it can give gossipers a strange kind of satisfaction, and it can cause social pressures in a group.

它可以伤害；它可以给八卦者一种奇怪的满足感；它可以在群体中制造社会压力。

So if you're a gossiper, I trust you to be a gossiper.

所以如果你个爱八卦的，我就相信你会个爱八卦的。

I mean, you know, I would say that I wouldn't want to think of myself as a malicious gossiper, and I wouldn't want to think of myself as an unethical gossiper.

我的意思，你知道的，我会说我不想把自己看作一个恶意的闲话者，也不想认为自己一个不道德的闲话者。

Another experiment, conducted by Kim Peters and Miguel Fonseca of the University of Exeter, found, among other things, that lies cropped up twice as frequently when gossipers were told they were in competition with each other.

埃克塞特大学的金·彼得斯和米格尔·丰塞卡进行了一项实验，其中一个发现，当八卦者被告知他们在与其他竞争时，谎言出现的频率会变为原来的两倍。

I think of the sharing of office politics as sharing of gossip, which is that the research shows that gossip most negatively reflects not on the topic, the subject of the gossip, but the gossiper.

我认为办公室政治的分享就八卦的分享，也就说，研究表明，八卦最负面的反映不话、八卦的主，而八卦者。