Chinese whispers

Chinese whispers

美 　英

• n.口傳失真（消息從一個人向另一個人傳播時每次都發生一些變化）
• 網絡傳話；傳話游戲；中國耳語

英漢解釋

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?

還是像中國傳言所說的那樣，這是華盛頓的陰謀，為的就是將華為攔在美國市場之外？

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

十年前，英國書迷托拜厄斯·希爾就注意到，《約定》之所以尚未沒落，是靠“中文讀者幾近不可聞的聲音”。

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

但在沒有中國參與競標的傳言給予提振的情況下，Potash公司股價回升到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.

這樣做的原因在于，DNS系統的工作機制采用了與“中國耳語”（Chinesewhispers）游戲非常相似的形式。