摘要
Task 1 Word on the street is that gossip (流言) is the worst. An Ann Landers advice column once characterized it as "the faceless ghost that breaks hearts and ruins careers". The Talmud describes it as a sword that kills three people:the teller, the listener, and the person being gossiped about. And Blaise Pascal observed, not unreasonably, that if people really knew what others said about them.
