tittle-tattle

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But does tittle-tattle really help attract more friends?
但是這些閑聊真的能幫助吸引更多的朋友嗎？
In lesser hands Ms Nasar’s story might have degenerated into a series of pen portraits: tittle-tattle for the middlebrow.
要是寫(xiě)書(shū)的人水平差一點(diǎn)，納薩爾女士的故事可能會(huì)退化為一系列人物特寫(xiě)：普通人閑聊的談資。
Inevitably, he was assumed to be referring to the scandal, and an impression was left that Benedict thought accusations of paedophilia were mere tittle-tattle.
不可避免的會(huì)讓人聯(lián)想到他指的是這次丑聞并給人留下這樣一個(gè)印象即本尼迪克特認(rèn)為戀童癖的控告只不過(guò)是閑聊罷了。

Most of all, he deplores what he sees as its passion for trivia and tittle-tattle.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot: In a spin The
What happens if the rumoured details of Mr Clinton's misbehaviour in that same Oval Office become common knowledge rather than Internet tittle-tattle?
ECONOMIST: The president’s disappearing friends

talk about other people's lives that is usually unkind, disapproving, or not true

If you refer to something that a group of people talk about as tittle-tattle, you mean that you disapprove of it because it is not important, and there is no real evidence that it is true.