Legend
['ledʒ(ə)nd] or ['lɛdʒənd]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
(n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature.
(n.) Any wonderful story coming down from the past, but not verifiable by historical record; a myth; a fable.
(n.) An inscription, motto, or title, esp. one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon an heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration.
(v. t.) To tell or narrate, as a legend.
校對:梅雷迪思
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Fable, myth, fiction, doubtful narrative, fictitious story.[2]. Motto (round a coin or a medal).
手打:柴门霍夫
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Myth, fable, marvellous_story, fiction
ANT:History, fact, actual_occurrence
欧内斯特整理
解釋/意思:
n. a marvellous story from early times: the motto on a coat of arms medal or coin: an inscription of any kind: a musical composition set to a poetical story.—n. Leg′endary a book of legends: one who relates legends: (pl.) a chronicle of the lives of saints.—adj. consisting of legends: romantic: fabulous.—n. Leg′endist a writer of legends.—Golden legend (see Golden).
卡里校對
例句/造句/用法:
- This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You know the legend of this house and garden? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He was the son of---- Poor but honest parents--that is all right--never mind the particulars --go on with the legend. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There was no record or legend of any prisoner with those initials, and many fruitless guesses were made what the name could have been. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- It is monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Don't --now don't inflict that most in-FERNAL old legend on me anymore today! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Hence, I inferred, arose the legend of the Banshee. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Upon the last lid's polished field-- Legend now both fair and true A gallant knight bears on his shield, Amy in letters gold and blue. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who _is not_. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A second legend bears him to the sea-shore. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- According to the legend, this great discovery elicited extravagant demonstrations of joy. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The legend of Theseus tells of such a raid. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Old Mrs. Mingott's foreign daughters had become a legend. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- There is a legend of a peasant who lived near Paris through the whole Napoleonic era without ever having heard of the name of Bonaparte. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It was veiled by the curtain of a Sumerian legend. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Then there are Latin legends and rhymes at the bottom of each page. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Dejah Thoris related many interesting facts and legends concerning this lost race of noble and kindly people. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- But the truth of Lister, Modesto, and El Campesino was much better than the lies and legends. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Legends gather about the men who wrote it: those legends are absorbed by us almost with our mothers' milk. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His Saturday half-holiday he spent in the wood with his book of fairy legends, and that other unwritten book of his imagination. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- I had heard vague rumours, little more than legends they were, during my former life on Mars; but never had I seen them, nor talked with one who had. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- In fact, his practical contrivances won such repute that it is not easy to separate the historical facts from the legends that enshroud his name. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- One knew nothing, except for a few monstrous legends, of the rest of the world in which one lived. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Whenever that strain is found in any race, there are to be found also thoughts and legends of sacrificial murders. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But, as we have already intimated, Yuan Chwang's account of Indian realities is swamped by his accumulation of legends and pious inventions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This book contained legends of the saints. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The legends of the Sunday Schools do him great injustice; they give one the impression that he was poor. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
錄入:库尔特