Mythology
[mɪ'θɒlədʒɪ] or [mɪ'θɑlədʒi]
解释:
(noun.) the study of myths.
(noun.) myths collectively; the body of stories associated with a culture or institution or person.
艾琳校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.
(n.) A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
编辑:韦斯利
娱乐性解释：
n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin early history heroes deities and so forth as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
校对:路易丝
例句:
- The heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of fact. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- But the notion of a spontaneous normal development of these activities is pure mythology. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- It dates back to the shadowy ages of tradition, and was the birthplace of gods renowned in Grecian mythology. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- He wanders over Roman history, and over Greek philosophy and mythology, and finds everywhere crime, impiety and falsehood. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- No hero of mythology or fable ever dared such dragons to rescue some captive goddess as did this dauntless champion of civilization. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- You are aware, I suppose, that all mythology and poetry is a narration of events, either past, present, or to come? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- In practical reality Europe does not do this, she has given herself up altogether to the worship of this strange state mythology. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- He adapts mythology like the Homeric poems to the wants of the state, making 'the Phoenician tale' the vehicle of his ideas. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Certain things appear in the mythology of mankind again and again. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The idea of good is one of those sacred words or forms of thought, which were beginning to take the place of the old mythology. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- It would be as bad as letting Carp, and Brasenose generally, know how backward he was in organizing the matter for his Key to all Mythologies. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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