Myth

It's impossible to disentangle the myth from reality. 分清神話和現實是不可能的。

Comics tend to perpetuate the myth that 'boys don't cry'. 連環畫往往在延續着“男兒有淚不輕彈”的神話。

His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche. 他對那個神話的探索揭示了美國人的心理。

Electricity privatization has exploded the myth of cheap nuclear power. 電力私有化打破了廉價核電力的神話。

At last, a women's magazine to explode the myth that thin equals beautiful. 終於有一家婦女雜誌起來推翻瘦即美的神話。

I bought into the popular myth that when I got the new car or the next house, I'd finally be happy. 我相信了這種大眾神話，以為只要買上新車或再買棟房子就會最終幸福起來。

What is the myth? 神話是什麼？

The myth of controlling the waters persists. 控制水資源的神話仍在繼續。

They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius. 他們使孤獨天才的神話永垂不朽。

The cowboy of myth and reality had his beginnings in Texas. 神話和現實中的牛仔起源於德克薩斯州。

This myth leads to the assumption that a company can simply lower its labor costs by cutting wages. 這個神話導致了這樣一種假設，即公司可以通過降低工資來降低勞動力成本。

What Levi-Strauss is saying here is that his approach to myth is itself only a version of the myth. 列維-斯特勞斯在這裏説的是，他對神話的研究，本身只是神話的一個版本。

While cryonics is a genuine field of research, the claim that Disney went in for it is an urban myth. 因為人體冷凍法是一個全新的研究領域，説迪斯尼冷凍了自己的聲稱是一個都市神話。

The earlier poem, "The Song of the Wandering Aengus," transformed the Irish landscape into a place of myth. 早期的詩歌《流浪的安古斯之歌》，把愛爾蘭的風景變成了一個神話之地。

The next part of the myth is that if we can learn to use the rest of our brains, then we'll be much smarter. 神話的下一部分是，如果我們能學會使用大腦的其餘部分，那麼我們就會變得更聰明。

Yeats seems to be reversing this trick in "The Fisherman," which seems to be converting myth back into reality. 葉芝好像在《漁夫》一詩中，進行了這一轉變，似乎把神話變成了現實。

The myth of the "natural" forest has survived, yet there are effectively no remaining "primary" forests in Europe. “天然”森林的神話一直存在，但實際上在歐洲沒有現存的“原始”森林。

The big American myth is that you can pull yourself up by your own efforts and change a bad situation into a good one. 美國人的一大神話是人可以通過自己的努力振作起來，轉逆為順。

Yeats sees the Second Coming as an image, as a myth, an idea, a metaphor, a certain stylistic arrangement of experience. 葉芝把《第二次降臨》看成一個意象、一個神話、一個意識、一個比喻、一種詩意感受的安排。

The myth is also perpetuated by the compensation-consulting industry, which has its own incentives to keep such myths alive. 薪酬諮詢行業也讓這種神話永久化，這個行業有自己的動機來維持這種神話的活力。

One such factor is the evolution of downsizing into a powerful business myth: managers simply believe that downsizing is efficacious. 其中一個因素就是縮小規模已經演變成一個強大的商業神話：經理們單純地相信縮小規模是有效的。

America is a country that now sits atop the cherished myth that work provides rewards, that working people can support their families. 現在，美國是一個相信工作會帶來回報、勞動人民能夠養家這一珍貴神話的國家。

Ten lesson plans—on topics ranging from the Maya language to the Maya creation myth—have been developed for the interactive expedition. 十個課程計劃——主題從瑪雅語言到瑪雅創造神話——已經為互動探險開發。

We all colluded in the myth of him as the swanky businessman. 我們所有人串通一氣，把他神化為一流的商人。

Contrary to popular myth , women are not worse drivers than men. 都説女人開車比男人差，其實不然。

Contrary to the popular myth, women are not reckless spendthrifts. 與盛行的謬見相反，女人們並非揮霍無度。

There is a famous Greek myth in which Icarus flew too near to the Sun. 一個著名的希臘神話中説，伊卡洛斯飛得離太陽太近了。

Many mothers schooled their daughters in the myth of female inferiority. 許多母親用男尊女卑的錯誤觀念教育女兒。

It is another unfortunate myth of our culture that older people are asexual. 我們文化中另一個可嘆的觀念認為年長者是無性的。

It is a myth that gunslingers in the American west cut notches in the handle of their pistol for each man they shot. 有種傳説，美國西部的槍手們每殺死一個人就在他們的槍柄上刻下一個V形記號。 ^[1]