1. 造謠

謠言：rumor /'rʊmɚ/

但“造謠”可不是make a rumor！

make只能表達(dá) “編造出謠言”，想表達(dá) “編造并傳播” 謠言，地道的說(shuō)法是 “start a rumor”。

I see Adam's hand in this , It would be just like him to start such a rumor .

我看得出來(lái)亞當(dāng)在背后搞鬼，散布這種謠言很像他的作風(fēng)。

Who started the rumor that I’m pregnant?

誰(shuí)造的謠說(shuō)我懷孕了？

He started the rumor to embarrass me.

他造謠就是為了讓我難堪。

此外，造謠還可以用：cook up a story來(lái)表示↓↓↓

cook up =虛構(gòu)，偽造。

"Tell me why you were late getting to school, and don't cook up a story that I won't believe, " Matthew's mother said.

“告訴我為什么上學(xué)遲到了，別編造，我不會(huì)相信的。”馬休的媽媽說(shuō)。

2. 辟謠

英文中，用refute the rumor來(lái)表示“辟謠”。

Why didn't he refute the rumor？

他為啥不辟謠？

She finally came up and refuted the rumors about her family.

她最終還是站出來(lái)辟謠了關(guān)于她家庭的謠言。

那么，“微博辟謠”，又應(yīng)該怎么表達(dá)呢？

請(qǐng)看一段英文報(bào)道↓↓↓

Sina said it has created a separate channel dubbed “Weibo Refutes Rumors” to spread denials of false information. It announced an email address for users to send reports of possible falsehoods.

新浪網(wǎng)表示已創(chuàng)建單獨(dú)的“微博辟謠”頻道，告知用戶哪些是虛假信息。新浪還專設(shè)了舉報(bào)郵箱，供用戶舉報(bào)疑似虛假消息。

文中的Weibo Refutes Rumors就是指“微博辟謠”，也可以稱為rumor refutal。

謠言散布群體常稱為rumor mill（謠言工廠，流言簿）。

Rumor可以直接作動(dòng)詞，如：

It is rumored that she has committed suicide.

據(jù)傳聞，她已自殺身亡。

（來(lái)源：英語(yǔ)四六級(jí)備考）