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

人们通常认为爱讲八卦的人是无害的，但残忍的谎言会引起痛苦。

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

黑人是不知疲倦的八卦者，当然，这只是说他们是人的迂回方式。

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.

他们不仅示不赞成，他们还示自己更有可能给八卦者打更低的级，并建议减少奖金。

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.

它可以伤害人；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。

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，其中一个发现是，当八卦者被告知他们在与其他人竞争时，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是八卦的分享，也就是说，研究明，八卦最负面的反映不是话题、八卦的主题，而是八卦者。