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单词 town-talk
释义 ˈtown-ˈtalk
The common talk or gossip of the people of a town; the subject or matter of such talk or gossip.
1654–5Cromwell Speech to Parl. 22 Jan. 23 If it be not folly in Me to listen to Town-talk, such things have been proposed.1667Pepys Diary 26 Apr., All the town-talk is now-a-days of her extravagancies.1694Congreve Double-Dealer iii. i, You'll ruin me if you take such public Notice of it, it will be a Town-Talk.1712Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Mar., The news of the French desiring a cessation of arms..was but town talk.1848Thackeray Van. Fair lv, It was town-talk for at least three days.1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xii, Why should she taboo society, and make herself the town-talk?
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