汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 以讹传讹
以讹传讹 (以訛傳訛)
to spread falsehoods / to increasingly distort the truth / to pile errors on top of errors (idiom)
以 Take / 讹 error / Refers to the incorrect transmission of words that were originally incorrect
把本来就不正确的话又错误地传开去,越传越错。
() é () chuán/zhuàn
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

让我这个目击者来告诉他们所发生的事情,也免得以讹传讹

Let me, as a witness, tell them what happened so that they will not be wrongly informed.

她坚持认为,50%的统计数字只是一个流传已久的瑞士军刀神话,人人都在以讹传讹,某些媒体也是信手拈来。

Instead she contends that the 50% stat is a myth that persists because it's something of a political Swiss Army knife, handy for any number of agendas.

这些无外生有、凭空捏造的消息让我深恶痛绝,同时,我严峻声讨这类未经核实,以讹传讹的行为。

I am personally very upset to find these false and vicious rumors in the Chinese media and I completely condemn them.