1. 造謠

謠言：rumor /’r?m?/

但“造謠”可不是make a rumor!

make只能表達 “編造出謠言”，想表達 “編造并傳播” 謠言，地道的說法是 “start a rumor”。

I see Adam’s hand in this , It would be just like him to start such a rumor .

我看得出來亞當在背后搞鬼，散布這種謠言很像他的作風。

Who started the rumor that I’m pregnant?

誰造的謠說我懷孕了?

He started the rumor to embarrass me.

他造謠就是為了讓我難堪。

此外，造謠還可以用：cook up a story來表示↓↓↓

cook up =虛構，偽造。

"Tell me why you were late getting to school, and don’t cook up a story that I won’t believe, " Matthew’s mother said.

“告訴我為什么上學遲到了，別編造，我不會相信的。”馬休的媽媽說。

2. 辟謠

英文中，用refute the rumor來表示“辟謠”。

Why didn’t he refute the rumor?

他為啥不辟謠?

She finally came up and refuted the rumors about her family.

她最終還是站出來辟謠了關于她家庭的謠言。

那么，“微博辟謠”，又應該怎么表達呢?

請看一段英文報道↓↓↓

Sina said it has created a separate channel dubbed “Weibo Refutes Rumors” to spread denials of false information. It announced an email address for users to send reports of possible falsehoods.

新浪網表示已創建單獨的“微博辟謠”頻道，告知用戶哪些是虛假信息。新浪還專設了舉報郵箱，供用戶舉報疑似虛假消息。

文中的Weibo Refutes Rumors就是指“微博辟謠”，也可以稱為rumor refutal。

謠言散布群體常稱為rumor mill(謠言工廠，流言簿)。

Rumor可以直接作動詞，如：

It is rumored that she has committed suicide.

據傳聞，她已自殺身亡。