myth 的定义
- a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature.
- stories or matter of this kind: realm of myth.
- any invented story, idea, or concept: His account of the event is pure myth.
- an imaginary or fictitious thing or person.
- an unproved or false collective belief that is used to justify a social institution.
myth 近义词
fictitious story, often ancient
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- Instead, it’s the myth that the flu shot itself makes you sick.
- Blockchain surveillance tools are powerful and increasingly widespread, proving that cryptocurrency is not as anonymous as popular myth might have it.
- The popular myth that Belarusians simply aren’t strong enough to stand up for themselves has been debunked.
- Benedict was stopping in New Mexico to study myth and ritual in the Zuni Pueblo.
- Even seasoned marketers can feel out of the SEO loop sometimes, especially when myths and speculations regarding algorithm updates spread online.
- In the 70s, this myth kept openly gay people out of teaching positions.
- And they all travel affordably, busting the myth that travel is only for the elite.
- Hangover Rx: “The old ‘hair of the dog’ is pretty much just a myth,” says White.
- “The crack baby myth is being recapitulated in terms of NAS,” Sunderlin said.
- And likewise the Easter bunny, a bizarre pagan myth if ever one there was.
- The myth of "Boreas and Orithyia," though faulty perhaps in technique, is good in conception and arrangement.
- No such ethical bearing as this was ever assigned the myth by the red race before they were taught by Europeans.
- I wanted to show you that this man with the gold tooth and the brown beard is no myth, as you seem to believe.
- For ourselves, we do not credit the myth of the Hellenists; of the very existence of a Hercules we are profoundly incredulous.
- In Celtic myth the Silver Bough played a less sinister part, and figures as a fairy talisman to music and delight.