Well-directed tittle-tattle may easily causes its victim to lose his or her livelihood .

针对性 很 强的聊天，很容易使受害者丢掉 饭碗。

In lesser hands Ms Nasar 's story might have degenerated into a series of pen portraits : tittle-tattle for the middlebrow .

如果 娜萨女士文笔稍差一些，这些故事就要成了一堆钢笔肖像 速写， 成了 关于一帮 知识 界 平庸人物的 杂淡。

He is the kind of man who would avoid becoming involved in tittle-tattle at all costs .

他是个 怕 惹是生非的人。

The reason that the art of tittle-tattle is dying out has nothing to do with us becoming nicer as we are surely just as horrible as they always were .

闲话的艺术正在消亡，其原因不是人们变得更加高尚了人们当然还是一如既往地可憎。