urban legend
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英漢解釋
英英解釋
例句
Still, the idea that women use nearly three times as many words a day as men has taken on the status of an "urban legend, " he said.
即便如此，女性說的話數目是男性的三倍，這樣的一個觀念已經是成為了“都市傳奇”
The belief that Coca-Cola works as an after-sex spermicide is nothing but urban legend, a scientist cautions in the British Medical Journal.
認為可口可樂能當做性行為后的殺精劑，其實只是謠言，一名科學家在「英國醫學期刊」提醒。
Margaret was an Internet urban legend, and Wayne had researched more than a few sketchy photos on various paranormal sites.
要知道，瑪格麗特在互聯網上可是個傳奇人物，就連懷恩都會去各種超自然網頁搜索她的生活照。
An urban legend about the suicide outbreak seems to have sprung up almost instantaneously.
民間關于自殺大爆發的傳說幾乎是突如其來涌現出來的。
"Our results also suggest that the supposed effect of moon phase on medical complications is merely an urban legend, " he said.
研究結果還表明，月相對會增加并發癥的發生只是坊間的傳言。
Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed by their tellers to be true.
都市流言是現代民間傳說的一種，那些虛假故事被它們的講述者演繹得可以以假亂真。
When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself?
第一次聽到這個傳聞的時候，我以為這是一個毫無根據的傳說。怎麼有人能夠藉由治療自己的方式來治療別人呢？
Folklorists have come up with a number of definitions for urban legend.
民俗學家們曾對都市傳奇下過多個定義。
When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend.
第一次聽到這個故事的時候，我認為這只是一個小道傳聞。
FYI: Urban legend: A story, which may at one time have been true, that has grown from constant retelling into a mythical yarn.
參考信息：都市傳奇：一個故事，過去發生過的真實事件，在事件的不斷傳播中逐漸成為一個神秘的傳奇事件。
Hence, no two versions of an urban legend are ever exactly alike; there can be as many variants as there are tellers of the tale.
因此，沒有任何兩個版本的都市傳說會完全的相似，他們就像故事的講述者的不同而有所差別。
I decided to check out the facts on this urban legend.
我決定親自查驗一下這個都市傳奇中的種種事實。
The grain of truth embedded in this urban legend is the fact that falling objects -- even ones that seem harmless -- can do a lot of damage.
不過在這個都市傳說中，告訴了我們這樣一個道理。高空墜物（即使是看似毫無殺傷力的物體）能造成很大的損失。
That story isn't true, of course; it's an urban legend, circulating by word of mouth since the 1970s.
當然，這故事不是真的，這是一個都市傳傳說，從二十世紀七十年代口口相傳至今。
"I'm curious about [it], but it's so shrouded in urban legend I'm not sure what's real and what's imaginary, " says Davies.
“我對它很好奇，但是它在都市傳說中掩蓋得如此嚴實，以至于我無法肯定什么是真實的，什么是想象，”Davies說。
Critics have largely rejected the above claims, arguing they are a combination of hoax and urban legend.
批評者很大程度上拒絕了上述的觀點，爭論說它們只不過是愚弄和城市傳說的混合物。
Greta Garbo's screen legend had become Greta Garbo urban legend.
嘉寶的銀幕神話轉變成了嘉寶的都市童話。
Indeed, the number of suicides was far more modest than the urban legend implied.
事實上，自殺數量遠沒有都市傳言暗示的那么多。
Rick: The bald killer clone? Come on, Jack. He's an urban legend. Even the CIA and your own FBI say he doesn't exist.
那個腦袋光禿禿不長毛的克隆殺手？少來了，杰克。他只是一個流傳在城市中的傳說，何況CIA和你的FBI早就說過他根本不存在。
Don't buy the urban legend that Inuit cultures have hundreds of words for snow.
據說，因紐特文化在雪一詞的解釋上有幾百個。千萬不要相信這種坊間說法。
the film tells the urban legend of chucky and tiffany .
這部電影講述了一個關于強克和蒂芬妮都市傳奇。
Regardlessof its false premise, this letter has all the ingredients of an urban legend - no names, vague references to location, no dates.
無論其錯誤的前提，這封信的所有成分的城市傳奇-沒有名字，含糊地提及位置，沒有日期。
According to an urban legend, bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked: "Why do you rob banks? "
在關于這個城市的很多傳說中，有一個是這樣講述的：有人曾經問銀行大盜WillieSutton：“你為什么搶銀行？”
I think it's an urban legend.
那不過是一種都市傳說。
my grandmather always told me some urban legend to make me go to bed early
我奶奶總是講一些嚇人的民間傳說好讓我早點睡覺
In brief, an urban legend will typically exhibit most or all of the following aracteristics
簡要地說，一個都市傳說通常會有以下所列的多個典型特征
you find that funny ? - she ' s an urban legend , sir
你覺得這個很好笑嗎？-她是城里一段傳奇
