生活英语 Everyday English 
 
Please keep it a secret!

EVERYONE has secrets. Are you a person who can keep secrets for others, or are you a big-mouth? If you find that you often talk in the following ways, then you are probably the latter.

Listen, don't tell anyone else... 不要告诉别人哦

Sometimes you realize that you're leaking a secret.

Don't tell anyone else, OK? Actually Tom and Alice have been together for two weeks. (不要告诉别人好吗？实际上汤姆和爱丽丝已经开始约会有两周的时间了。)

Obviously, you didn't hear this from me... 别说是我说的哦

Sometimes you just can't help telling a secret, but you don't want people to know that you're the source of the information.

Obviously you didn't hear this from me: Henry got a high mark this time. But, the fact is, he cheated on the test. (别和别人说是我说的哦。虽然亨利这次考试成绩很好，但是实际上他考试作弊了。)

There're a lot of rumors going around… 很多人传言说……

People know something's a rumor, but they still enjoy spreading it and talking about it.

There're a lot of rumors going around. They all say that the singer had a daughter out of wedlock with a football player. (大家都在谣传说这个歌手和那个足球运动员有一个私生女。)

Keep this on the down-low (or DL)… 不要传出去哦，不要宣扬哦

What I'm about to tell you – keep it on the down-low. She's planning to quit after Christmas. (我跟你说的你不要跟别人宣扬哦。圣诞节过后她就不打算做了。)