核心畫面
Picture a story travelling mouth to mouth with no receipt attached: someone heard it from someone, it arrives at you, and nobody in the chain can point to where it started. The word says nothing about true or false — it only tells you how the story got here.
可以想成：一則故事一張嘴傳一張嘴地跑過來，身上沒有任何收據——某人聽某人說的，傳到你這裡，整條線上沒有人指得出源頭在…更多收起
可以想成：一則故事一張嘴傳一張嘴地跑過來，身上沒有任何收據——某人聽某人說的，傳到你這裡，整條線上沒有人指得出源頭在哪。這個字本身不判斷真假，它只交代「這個消息是怎麼到你面前的」；所以英文常說 The rumour turned out to be true，一點也不矛盾。原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
rumournoun/ˈɹuːmə/
- 1
UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland spelling of rumor.
- Rumour had it (though not proved) that she descended from the house of the lords Talbot de Malahide
- There were rumours, new rumours every morning, delightful and outrageous rumours, so that the lumps in the porridge were swallowed without comment and the fish-cakes were eaten without contumely.
- 2
obsoleteA prolonged, indistinct noise.
- Prithee, listen well; / I heard a bustling rumour like a fray, / And the wind brings it from the Capitol.
rumourverb/ˈɹuːmə/
- 1
Commonwealth standard spelling of rumor.
- Two of the four main routes over the Border were rumoured to be threatened with withdrawal of, or heavy cuts in, passenger services.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。