myth

[mɪθ]
  • n.

    神话;神怪故事;奇人,奇事;虚构的人,虚构的事;

  • 单词变形

    复数: myths


  • 词义辨析

    myth, account, anecdote, fable, legend, story, tale

    这组词都可表示叙事性的文字。它们的区别是:
    1.account, fable, legend, myth, story, tale是一般用词; anecdote是正式用词。
    2.account指对于某事的详细说明,原原本本,有头有尾,多用于报道事实; story指取悦于人的完整故事,有人物,有情节,有头有尾,可口头也可书面,可真实也可虚构,体裁上则既可为诗体,也可为散文体; anecdote指轶事趣闻,一般较短,有趣味; fable指寓言,主人公多为拟人化的动物或非生物,多为虚构,旨在说明一个道理或教训,而寓言则多在结尾处点明; legend 指民间传说或传奇故事,多含虚幻成分; myth指神话,特指与宗教或原始文明有关的故事,多以超人的力量去解释自然现象或人生; tale指故事或传说,即或有事实根据也多添枝加叶或夸张,含荒唐不可信的意味。

  • 双语例句
1、

It is another unfortunate myth of our culture that older people are asexual.

我们的文化里还有一种错误观念,就是认为上了年纪的人就不再有性欲了。

——柯林斯例句

2、

Nobody believes in the myth about human beings becoming immortals.

谁也不相信人能成仙的神话.

《简明英汉词典》

3、

the murky borderland between history and myth

历史与神话之间的边缘领域

——《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

4、

Rumour, myth and hearsay obscure the truth after months of bloodshed.

杀戮持续了数月后,真相在谣言、谎话和传闻的遮掩下变得模糊不清。

——柯林斯例句

5、

Myth # 4 : What goes down must come back up; or Buy low, sell high.

谬论 # 4: 跌下去必定涨回来; 或者买入低价的, 卖出高价的.

——期刊摘选

6、

The coronation was an occasion for extravagant myth and sentiment.

加冕典礼是极尽奢华和怀旧的仪式。

——柯林斯例句

7、

Contrary to the popular myth, women are not reckless spendthrifts.

和人们的普遍观念恰恰相反,女性并不是胡乱挥霍者。

柯林斯例句

8、

Northeast Electric unit is expected to clone the myth of H shares soaring!

该股有望克隆东北电气H股暴涨的神话!

——期刊摘选

9、

The report dispels the myth that Northerners have a fattier diet than people in the south.

该报告消除了北方人比南方人膳食脂肪含量高的谬论。

柯林斯例句

10、

It's impossible to disentangle the myth from reality.

分清楚神话和现实是不可能的。

——柯林斯例句

11、

We can't possibly believe the myth of " detente " now.

我们现在无论怎样也不相信 “ 缓和 ” 的神话了.

——《简明英汉词典》

12、

His exploration of the myth brings insight into the American psyche.

他对这个神话的探讨揭示了美国人的心理。

——柯林斯例句

13、

I have been working on exploding the myth of fixity of meaning.

我一直在致力于推翻有关意义恒定性的谬谈。

柯林斯例句

14、

People's faith in the Emperor was based on the myth that he was infallible.

人们效忠君主是基于他永无过失的神话.

——《简明英汉词典》

15、

Electricity privatisation has exploded the myth of cheap nuclear power.

电力私有化打破了关于廉价核能的神话。

——柯林斯例句

16、

The myth of Narcissus is described in Ovid's work.

有关那喀索斯的神话故事在奥维德的作品中有过描述。

——柯林斯例句

17、

The story is a pure myth.

这故事纯属虚构.

——《简明英汉词典》

18、

The myth that Japan is not open to concerns from outside has, I think, been demolished at a stroke.

关于日本对外界的关注不予理会的谬论,我认为,一下子就被驳倒了。

——柯林斯例句

19、

It's only a myth.

这不过是个神话.

——《现代汉英综合大词典》

20、

My mother colluded in the myth of him as the swanky businessman.

我母亲和别人串通,把他杜撰成一个阔气的商人。

——柯林斯例句

21、

He has peddled the myth that he is supporting the local population.

他散布说他支持当地群众.

——《简明英汉词典》

22、

Many mothers schooled their daughters in the myth of female inferiority.

许多母亲把男尊女卑的错误观念传给了她们的女儿。

——柯林斯例句

23、

The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.

这个故事与某个希伯来神话有相似之处.

——《简明英汉词典》

24、

I bought into the popular myth that when I got the new car or the next house, I'd finally be happy.

我相信那个流行的说法,当我有辆新车或者第二套房子时,我才能最终心满意足.

——柯林斯例句

25、

Schools tend to perpetuate the myth that boys are better at sport than girls.

学校往往会助长男孩比女孩体育强这一错误观念的延续.

——《简明英汉词典》

26、

The writer feigns many a myth.

作者想象出许多神话.

——《现代英汉综合大词典》

27、

It's the kind of story we think of as myth. But in the case of Lincoln, the story is true.

我们把这类故事视为神话, 但就林肯来说, 这故事却是真实的.

——《简明英汉词典》

28、

This image is a myth perpetuated by the media.

这种形象是媒体宣传造成的错觉。

——柯林斯例句

29、

It is the element of myth that makes the Bumppo stories more than mere adventure yarns.

这种神秘气氛使班波的传奇没有流于普通惊险小说一路.

——辞典例句

30、

It is also a myth that the faculty of hearing is greatly increased in blind people.

盲人的听力会大幅增强也是一种谬谈。

——柯林斯例句

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