Myth
[mɪθ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.
阿弗丽达整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.
(n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.
整理:泰丝
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Fable, invention, allegory, parable, fiction, fabulous story.
錄入:梅利特
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Fable, legend, parable, supposition, fiction, allegory, fabulous_story,fabrication
ANT:Fact, history, narrative
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解釋/意思:
n. a fable a legend a fabulous narrative founded on a remote event esp. those made in the early period of a people's existence: an invented story: a falsehood.—adjs. Myth′ic -al relating to myths: fabulous: untrue.—adv. Myth′ically.—ns. Myth′icist Myth′iciser an adherent of the mythical theory; Myth′ist a maker of myths; Mythogen′esis the production of or the tendency to originate myths; Mythog′rapher a writer or narrator of myths; Mythog′raphy representation of myths in graphic or plastic art art-mythology; Mythol′oger Mytholō′gian a mythologist.—adjs. Mytholog′ic -al relating to mythology fabulous.—adv. Mytholog′ically.—v.t. Mythol′ogise to interpret or explain myths: to render mythical.—ns. Mythol′ogiser one who or that which mythologises; Mythol′ogist one versed in or who writes on mythology; Mythol′ogy the myths or stories of a country: a treatise regarding myths: a collection of myths: the science which investigates myths; Mython′omy the deductive and predictive stage of mythology; Myth′oplasm a narration of mere fable; Mythopœ′ist a myth-maker.—adjs. Mythopoet′ic Mythopœ′ic myth-making tending to generate myth.—n. Myth′us the same as myth:—pl. Myth′ī.—Mythical theory the theory of D. F. Strauss (1808-74) and his school that the Gospels are mainly a collection of myths developed during the first two centuries from the imagination of the followers of Jesus; Comparative mythology the science which investigates myths and seeks to relate those of different races.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Without a blush he informs us that this central gospel of the working class is simply a myth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It must not be supposed that respect for the myth is a discovery of Sorel's. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- This sense of mastery in a winning battle against the conditions of our life is, I believe, the social myth that will inspire our reconstructions. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Lady St. Simon is a myth. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Every Greek state had a myth respecting its own origin; the Platonic republic may also have a tale of earthborn men. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Her myth ought to be taken to heart amongst the Tyburnians, the Belgravians--her story, and perhaps Becky's too. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For it is Theodore Roosevelt who is actually attempting to make himself and his admirers the heroes of a new social myth. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- His doctrine of the social myth has seemed to many commentators one of those silly paradoxes that only a revolutionary syndicalist and Frenchman could have put forward. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- As in the Republic, there is a myth, describing, however, not a future, but a former existence of mankind. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- All three are in the region of dramatic system-making and myth, to which probabilities are irrelevant. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- In such a test the Christian myth, for example, would be valued for its power of incarnating human desire. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Their creation myth proclaims: Merodach next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws which they were never to transgress. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of fact. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Myths must be judged as instruments for acting upon present conditions; all discussion about the manner of applying them concretely to the course of history is senseless. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The philosophy of Heracleitus cannot be shown to be borrowed from Zoroaster, and still less the myths of Plato. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Revolutionary myths . 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- The history of the world is full of great myths which have had the most concrete results. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It is not all on the same plane; it easily passes from ideas to myths and fancies, from facts to figures of speech. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- During their life these social myths contain a nation's finest energy. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- We, in the midst of our science and our rationalism, are still making myths, and their force is felt in the actual affairs of life. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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