myth的意思|myth的解释-里氏词典

myth [miθ]

n. 神话, 虚构的事, 虚构的人

myth

[ noun ]
a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
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Myth \Myth\ (m[i^]th), n. [Written also {mythe}.] [Gr. my^qos
myth, fable, tale, talk, speech: cf. F. mythe.]
1. 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.

2. A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose
actual existence is not verifiable.

As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths
these twenty years. --Ld. Lytton.

{Myth history}, history made of, or mixed with, myths.

"It's a myth to think that the public out there is just livid at the thought of a revenue component of a deficit reduction plan, that's a total mistake," says GOP analyst Kevin Phillips.
"The myth of Schultz is what I deal with," Doctorow said, "but he does really get involved with him in not a casual way.
This myth endured for years, despite litigation, scholarly study and government review that showed there wasn't any military need for the evacuation.
In popular myth, baseball was invented in Cooperstown by Abner Doubleday.
Raising money 'is tough on both sides of the water', explains Jones. Perhaps the greatest myth in the UK is that US start-ups have it easy when it comes to raising venture capital.
Had he but time enough, there was more that Bush might have borrowed from this archly romantic poem about the wily warrior of Greek myth.
For Paul Reichler, a Washington attorney who represents the Nicaraguan government in the U.S., such gestures prove a point about Mr. Borge: "He's not the dogmatic, doctrinaire, inflexible man that myth has made him."
The events shattered the myth that Bombay was aloof from politics and caste, unconcerned about anything but commerce.
"I think it's a myth that fund investors are generally wrong," Avi Nachmany, a fund analyst with Jesup, Josephthal & Co., says.
The myth of their impunity was shattered.
Similarly the contention that Moses was a myth and the Mosaic Code a concoction of post-Exilic priests is dismissed as "scepticism carried to the point of fanaticism."
But while millions of Brazilian blacks and whites live and work side by side in apparent harmony, many here contend that "racial democracy" is a myth.
For Mr. Campbell, the study of myth led to all the big questions: How was the universe created?
DCC, apparently rival to Sony's MD, will happily use Sony tape. The third myth is that the fate of the the companies involved, if not the entire consumer electronics industry, hangs on the success of these two products.
So why do we so treasure this myth?
This is a myth.
Most imaginative collection of the lot is an album dedicated to the myth of Prometheus in music, featuring interpretations by Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin and Nono.
Some critics say his romantic portrayal of old Japan perpetuates the myth that Japan is unique, a misconception they say still keeps Japan from participating fully in the international community.
Nordic myth has it that number 13 first became unlucky a few thousand years ago when, at a banquet of a dozen benevolent gods, an uninvited bad god intruded and started a fight that killed the most popular god.
"The myth was that Japanese producers could never compete in the semicustom niche markets" for ASICs, says Sheridan Tatsuno, senior industry analyst for Dataquest, a market research firm.
Authorities cannot even agree about where he first set foot on land. The Columbus story is permeated by myth.
Should the myth still persist that Picasso was no more than this century's greatest charlatan and fraud, this exhibition at Paris should finally explode it.
In celebrating the lifestyle of the hero-on-horseback, both reel and real, they help breathe renewed life into the myth of California and the Southwest as a cultural frontier.
The vice president promised to spare them the boredom of the issues, and reminded them about the myth of Martin Van Buren, the last sitting vice president elected to the White House.
On the positive side, once the word spreads that the myth has been shattered, we believe many corporations will unleash a lot of pent-up creativity and invent a better glossy report.
This is the flip-side of the "too big to fail" myth.
As such, they attract more readily the tired old myth that a lawyer's argument is of no value because he is paid to deliver it (and, as a QC, more highly paid than his stuffed-gown junior colleague).
A high-tech human-powered aircraft made a successful series of test flights today in Iraklion, Crete, in preparation for a world-record distance attempt that also will recreate the ancient Daedalus myth.
Denyer believes this is a myth.
Park Naturalist Caroline Evans says staffers "try to take a scientific view," but admits "we perpetuate the myth" by displaying letters in the visitor center.

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