The news about Mr. Thiel funding the suit against Gawker broke just as the previous contretemps about Silicon Valley and the media-how Facebook shapes the news that its users see, sparked by a story in Gizmodo, another Gawker property-was dying down.

He secretly financed a suit brought by the wrestler Hulk Hogan against Valleywag's parent, Gawker Media, which has resulted in$ 140 million in damages. Gawker is appealing.

他秘密资助了一场诉讼，由摔跤运动员哈尔克·霍根（Hulk Hogan）诉讼Valleywag的母公司Gawker传媒，最后Gawker被判决赔偿1.4亿美元的损失费。

For Mr. Thiel, taking action against Gawker may be a win.

对于蒂尔来说，采取行动反对Gawker可能是一着好棋。

Dan Lyons, an author who was briefly a Valleywag writer, said what Mr. Thiel did "sets a scary precedent," but "my guess is that most people hate Gawker as much as he does, so he probably ends up looking like a hero among his own crowd."

曾经短暂为Valleywag撰稿的丹·里昂斯（Dan Lyons）说，蒂尔的确“树立了一个可怕的先例，”但是“我猜大多数人和他一样憎恨Gawker，所以最后他可能会在自己的圈子里被视为英雄。”

The latest from Gawker: Eva Longoria Says Star-Struck Apple Employees Stole Her Information.

最新的一篇相关报道来自明星八卦网站Gawker：《伊娃o朗格利亚称苹果“追星族”员工盗窃了她的个人信息。》（Eva Longoria Says Star-Struck Apple Employees Stole Her Information）

Gawker fingered a mysterious rash breakout at a high school in Hollywood and other parts of Florida which hazmat and disease control teams still can't explain as further proof that zombies are taking over.

在好莱坞的一所高中和佛罗里达州的其他地方还发生的一桩离奇皮疹事件，民众纷纷指责危险物品及疾病处理队对此并不能做出解释，并进一步证明说僵尸已经正接管世界。

John Cook, executive editor of Gawker Media, who helped put Valleywag to rest last year, said the site "didn't play the access game."

Gawker传媒的总编约翰·库克（John Cook）去年协助关闭了Valleywag，他说，这个网站“不玩信息渠道的游戏。”

Valleywag was born in 2006, an arm of Gawker's then-expanding empire of blogs, and it died last winter.

Valleywag诞生于2006年，当时Gawker正在扩张一个博客帝国，Valleywag是其中的一员，它于去年冬天倒闭。

The reality is that Gawker and sites such as Mail Online, drawn from the UK tabloid tradition, face being hoist by their own petard.

现实是Gawker及脱胎于英国小报传统的Mail Online这类网站正面临自食其果的窘境。

Gawker fingered a "mysterious rash" breakout at a high school in Hollywood and other parts of Florida-which hazmat and disease control teams still can't explain-as further proof that zombies are taking over.

八卦网站Gawker指出，佛罗里达州好莱坞某高中和该州其它部分地区爆发“神秘的皮疹”疫情，就连危险物质和疾病控制单位也无法解释，网站以此进一步佐证僵尸正接管世界。

Users get their own homepages, over which they are in charge& even having the ability to write their own headlines on Gawker posts.

用户拥有自己的主页，他们不仅可以掌控页面内容，甚至能够在掴客网撰写自己的头条文章。

We all know about celebrity-stalking websites like Gawker and TMZ, and the harm they wantonly inflict.

我们都知道Gawker和TMZ等跟踪明星的网站以及它们对明星的肆意伤害。

One hacker-identified as IAMDGKZ1-told Gawker they had information on a well-known film director.

一位名号为IAMDGKZ1的黑客成员告诉Gawker说，他们握有一位著名电影导演的信息。

Gawker fingered a "mysterious rash" breakout at a high school in Hollywood and other parts of Florida which hazmat and disease control teams still can't explain as further proof that zombies are taking over.

在好莱坞的一所高中和佛罗里达州的其他地方还发生的一桩“离奇皮疹”事件，民众纷纷指责危险物品及疾病处理队对此并不能做出解释，并进一步证明说僵尸已经正接管世界。

Two years earlier it asked Gawker to halt a "scavenger hunt" in which the gossip site offered$ 100,000 for a photo of the first iPad.

两年前，它要求八卦网站Gawker停止一项承诺给予第一代iPad照片发布者10万美元奖励的“寻宝行动”。

The popular Gawker network of news and gossip sites was shut down by a similar attack on Monday.

周一，深受欢迎的新闻与八卦网站gawker也因为类似的攻击而瘫痪。

What had happened is that one of her 170 followers had sent the Tweet to a Gawker journalist, and he retweeted it to his 15000 followers:

发生了啥事呢，就是她的那170个粉丝当中有一人将这条推文转发给了Gawker网的一个记者，后者又转发给自己的15000名粉丝：

No comment so far from Gawker.

截至目前，Gawker尚未就此发表评论。

Earlier this year, a photo of the two men, taken during what appeared to have been a booze-pong party at Columbia Records headquarters, found its way onto Gawker and the Huffington Post.

今年早些时候，两人的一张照片出现在新闻网站Gawker和《赫芬顿邮报》（Huffington Post）上，拍摄场合似乎是哥伦比亚唱片公司（Columbia Records）总部的一场“booze pong”（扔乒乓球喝酒游戏，又称beer pong）活动。

After miles of creeping along the congested highway, the motorist discovered the source of the frustration was only a gawker jam.

在拥堵的路上爬行了好几英里之后，司机才发现原来整个堵塞是发呆堵车导致的。

Knowing some everyday English will be helpful.

会一些日常英语会有所帮助的.