old wives' tale

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• na.無稽之談

英漢解釋

na.

1. 無稽之談

英英解釋

n.	1. a traditional belief or story, passed down by word of mouth, that is now considered untrue or superstitious

例句

Eating carrots to help you see in the dark is an old wives' tale-it doesn't make any difference at all.

吃胡蘿卜能幫助人在黑暗里看得清東西，這種說是無稽之談——實(shí)際上毫無作用。

The old wives' tale about chewing everything 20 times might be true - if you did take a bit more time eating, it could have an impact.

老媽媽嚼什么東西都要嚼20次的故事應(yīng)該是有道理的——如果你稍微多咀嚼一會(huì)兒，那么這可能真會(huì)對(duì)減少肥胖產(chǎn)生有益影響。

After the publication of The Old Wives'Tale (1908), Bennett said that he would "never be able to do better" .

《老婦譚》（1908）出版之后，貝氏曾一度認(rèn)為他“再也寫不出更好的作品了”。

The concept of "beauty sleep" isn't an old wives' tale.

“美容覺”的概念可不是無稽之談。

It is an old wives tale that sex is bad for the fetus once it is past a certain stage of growth.

老年婦女常說一旦胎兒長(zhǎng)到一定階段，性交就是危險(xiǎn)的。

'Constant jumping makes you grow taller' is an old wives' tale.

不停地跳能讓人長(zhǎng)高的說法純屬無稽之談。

I did not trust the information because it might be old wives' tale.

我不相信這資料，因?yàn)?/c>可能是無稽之談。

CONSUME more water and you will become much healthier, goes an old wives' tale.

一直以來都流傳著這樣的神話：喝更多的水會(huì)讓你變得健康。

The old wives' tale that a woman loses one tooth for every child she delivers may, in fact, contain a grain of truth.

女人每生一個(gè)孩子就掉一顆牙這種無稽之談事實(shí)上可能包含一點(diǎn)點(diǎn)真理。

In the past, the westerners looked on the acupuncture treatment as just an old wives'tale.

過去，西方人把針灸治療視為無稽之談。

How can you believe in such an old wives' tale?

你怎么能相信這么不科學(xué)的迂腐思想呢？

The saying "Lightning never strikes twice in the same place" is a dangerous old wives' tale that has brought death to many people.

“雷永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)在同一地方打第二次”這一諺語是很危險(xiǎn)的迷信，曾經(jīng)使許多人喪生。

The claim that garlic wards off vampires is just old wives' tale.

說什么蒜頭可以驅(qū)趕吸血鬼，只是三姑六婆之言。

One old wives' tale that has endured is that if a woman carries her unborn baby low, then it will be a boy.

根據(jù)一則流傳至今的老婦人的故事，如果孕婦腹中胎兒的位置較低，那么就會(huì)是個(gè)男孩。

Is it an old wives tale or can deaf people actually see better?

聾人的視力真的比正常人好嗎？還是這只是老婦人的傳說？

Blaming House Foundation for Poverty only Brought Him to Misery--Tragedy of Old Wives'Tale

貧窮怪屋基迷信好凄慘--迷信悲歌之三