Word on the street is the understudy steals the show!

小道消息都说替角儿在里面大出风头了呢！

" The Saudis know there is nothing like a whiff of grapeshot to keep the Americans engaged, " Mr. Shapiro said.

“没有什么比小道消息更能把美国牵扯进来，沙特人对此是再清楚不过了，”夏皮罗说。

Last fall, I was chastised for passing along a speculative tidbit I had heard in the dining hall

天，我因传播在餐厅里听到的一段小道消息而受到惩罚。

I heard through the grapevine that your getting married.

我是通过小道消息听说到你就结婚了。

In other words, we learn of it second-hand or through the grapevine.

换句话说，我们是通过二手信息或小道消息得知的。

That's the sort of thing that went around.

这就是会上流传的小道消息。

Hm? No... go on, tell me, what's the latest office gossip?

呃？没有...接着说，告诉我，最近有什么小道消息？

Comes the answer, I got it by the grapevine.

“这是我得到的小道消息。I got it by the grapevine.”

But, uh, back to the tip, is it like a sure thing?

但是 回到小道消息 这是千真万确的吗？

Our next expression is " I heard it through the grapevine" .

下一个表达是“我是通过小道消息听到的”。

Our first idiom is heard it on the grapevine.

我们的第一个习语，来自小道消息。

And she tried to give me a message in a bottle.

她试着给我小道消息。

" Ooh! Where all of our good gossip4 comes from, " Disgust explained.

“哦！所有好玩的小道消息都是从这里来的。”厌厌解释道。

On the other hand, no doubt the grapevine would inform you by lunchtime.

反正午饭前你也会听到小道消息。

Their tip-off came from a member of the public, who spotted him in a car in an underground car park in the western suburb of Bois-Colombes.

然后得到一名公众的小道消息，此人在西部郊区一处地下停车场发现了这名男子。

One soon heard the phrase, by the grapevine to describe false as well as true reports from the battlefield.

人们很快就听到了" 小道消息" ，这个词指的是战场上的虚假和真实报道。

Around him, colleagues were falling ill; on the employee grapevine, people said it was the coronavirus.

他周围的同事都在生病；员工中传着的小道消息，说是因为新冠病毒。

One theory is people thought the telegraph wires looked like the wires they use to train grapevines, so when they got a new message they'd say they heard it through the grapevine, or on the grapevine.

一种理论是，人们认为电报线看起来像他们用来牵引葡萄藤的线，所以他们得到一个新消息，他们会说他们是通过葡萄藤听到的（通过小道消息）可以用 through 或者 on。

Some of the most exciting information comes to you by way of the grapevine

而是来源于小道消息（the grapevine）。

Well, I heard it through the grapevine.

哦，我是从小道消息听说的。