Chinese whispers

Chinese whispers

美 　英

• n.口传失真（消息从一个人向另一个人传播时每次都发生一些变化）
• 网络传话；传话游戏；中国耳语

英汉解释

n.	1. a game in which people in a circle pass a message by whispering it into the ear of the person next to them, the message becoming increasingly distorted on the way 2. the process by which a piece of information becomes less reliable each time it is told by one person to another

例句

Or is there, as the Chinese whispers have it, a plot in Washington to keep the company out of the US market?

还是像中国传言所说的那样，这是华盛顿的阴谋，为的就是将华为拦在美国市场之外？

A decade ago, one British fan, Tobias Hill, noted that the book survived through "a barely audible system of Chinese whispers" .

十年前，英国书迷托拜厄斯·希尔就注意到，《约定》之所以尚未没落，是靠“中文读者几近不可闻的声音”。

The likelihood of that getting back to $150 or more, however, is that much less without the aid of Chinese whispers.

但在没有中国参与竞标的传言给予提振的情况下，Potash公司股价回升到150美元或以上的可能性就大大降低了。

The reason for this is that the DNS systems work on a system with an analogy similar to Chinese whispers.

这样做的原因在于，DNS系统的工作机制采用了与“中国耳语”（Chinesewhispers）游戏非常相似的形式。