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grapevines

/greyp-vahyn/US // ˈgreɪpˌvaɪn //UK // (ˈɡreɪpˌvaɪn) //

葡萄树,葡萄藤,葡萄苗,葡萄架

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a vine that bears grapes.
    • : Also called grapevine telegraph. a person-to-person method of spreading rumors, gossip, information, etc., by informal or unofficial conversation, letter writing, or the like.
    • : a private or secret source of information.

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Examples

  • At the winery, we had a full hookup for the RV on a gravel lot next to the grapevines.

  • Even there, Oliver May, the manager of Discovery Vineyard in the Horse Heaven Hills, says that while growers tend to prefer hot years, there’s a limit to what any grapevines can take.

  • Cell phones and online journals are a way for hikers to communicate, but old-fashioned notebook communal-trail registers found in shelters remain an important part of the hiker grapevine.

  • Sometimes I find out through the grapevine that she made plans with other friends.

  • The grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration.

  • Prince Harry has heard on the grapevine that UK pop star Cheryl Cole has a crush on him - and finds it pretty funny.

  • Every Afghan will know, through radio and the grapevine, the news that Americans burned the Quran.

  • “I had heard that just from the grapevine so I went and asked her,” Morgan recalls.

  • So over the past four or five years, the censorship strategy shifted from memos to an “official grapevine” type of operation.

  • We had eaten our supper and were seated on the ground, under a high, branching tree into which was trained a huge grapevine.

  • We briskly project ourselves to and fro in a swing of Nature's own contriving, namely, the tendrils of the wild grapevine.

  • We need another axeman to clear away the fallen trees and break the nets of grapevine.

  • A corpse was bound to it by a binding of grapevine and the two ends of the stretcher rested upon the shoulders of the bearers.

  • The various applications recommended in this work for the destruction of insects, are useful on the grapevine.