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Some of the most exciting information comes by way of the grapevine.一些最激动人心的消息来自小道消息。 That is so because reports received through the grapevine are supposed to be secret. The information is all hush hush. It is whispered into your ear with the understanding that you will not pass it on to others.之所以如此，是因为小道消息理应是秘密。这些信息都神神秘秘的,它被低声传入你耳朵的同时，都默认你不会再传给他人。 You feel honored and excited. You are one of the special few to get this information. You cannot wait. You must quickly find other ears to pour the information into. And so, the information - secret as it is – begins to spread. Nobody knows how far.你感到荣幸和兴奋。你是为数不多的知情者之一。你迫不及待，必须赶紧把这消息告诉他人。这样，这个消息 - 作为秘密开始蔓延。没人知道它传播多远。 The expression by the grapevine is more than one hundred years old.by the grapevine（通过小道消息）这句短语已有1百多年历史。 The American inventor, Samuel F. Morse, is largely responsible for the birth of the expression. Among others, he experimented with the idea of telegraphy – sending messages over a wire by electricity.When Morse finally completed his telegraphic instrument, he went before Congress to show that it worked.He sent a message over a wire from Washington to Baltimore. The message was: What hath God wrought? This was on May twenty-fourth, eighteen forty-four.美国发明家萨慕尔．摩斯 (Samuel F. Morse)对这句短语的诞生负很大一部分责任。其中，他进行了电报试验 - 通过电缆传送消息。当摩斯最终完成了他的电报装置，他在国会进行了展示。他从华盛顿通过电线发了一条消息到巴尔的摩。消息内容就是：“上帝创造了何等奇迹？”这是在1844年5月24日。 Quickly, companies began to build telegraph lines from one place to another. Men everywhere seemed to be putting up poles with strings of wire for carrying telegraphic messages. The workmanship was poor. And the wires were not put up straight.很快，公司开始兴建从一个地方到另一个地方那个的电报线路。到处都看到人们在栽电线杆拉线用于传输电报信息。由于施工质量差，电线没有被拉直。 Some of the results looked strange. People said they looked like a grapevine. A large number of the telegraph lines were going in all directions, as crooked as the vines that grapes grow on. So was born the expression, by the grapevine.结果看起来有些奇怪。人们说电报线看起来像葡萄藤。大量的电报线通往四面八方，就像葡萄藤一样歪歪曲曲的。这样就诞生了这个短语，by