by word of mouth
英 [baɪ wɜːd ɒv maʊθ]
美 [baɪ wɜːrd əv maʊθ]
网络 口头; 口口相传; 口头的; 口碑遂不胫而走
英英释义
adv
- by spoken rather than written means
- these stories were transmitted by word of mouth
- orally
- I heard it viva voce
双语例句
- Folklore is oral; that is, it passes by word of mouth from one person to another and from one generation to the next.
说民俗具有口头性，是因为它是经口头的形式从这人到那人，从这一代到下一代传承下来的。 - That story isn't true, of course; it's an urban legend, circulating by word of mouth since the1970s.
当然，这故事不是真的，这是一个都市传传说，从二十世纪七十年代口口相传至今。 - "Oh, by word of mouth."?
哦，通过口耳相传。 - Only by word of mouth, from mind to mind, could they pass on the secret.
他们只有靠用嘴巴才能把他们头脑中的秘密传来传去。 - I didn't read about it but heard the news by word of mouth.
我不是读到这消息，而是听来的。 - These storytellers passed on the earliest tales about Arthur by word of mouth.
亚瑟王的故事就是通过这些游呤诗人的口述流传下来的。 - The Scriptures and other apocryphal works were passed down either by word of mouth and through song, and much later in works of art that did much to instruct the believer.
经文和其他伪经作品或者是通过口头和唱颂，更加后期的是通过艺术作品来流传下来，对信仰者有很大的指引。 - Gossip ( usually a mixture of truth and untruth) passed around by word of mouth.
口头传播的闲话（通常有真实的也有不真实的）。 - He was trying to be very quiet about it but the news that he had won the lottery spread rapidly by word of mouth.
他本来不想别人知道，但是他中了彩票头奖的消息还是很快口头传开了。 - Legends of the'Dreamtime'are handed down by word of mouth and by totem from generation to generation.
创世记的传说以口头和图腾的形式一代代传下来。