urban legend
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- na.街头小道消息
- 网络下一个就是你；都市传说；都市传奇
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英英解释
例句
Still, the idea that women use nearly three times as many words a day as men has taken on the status of an "urban legend, " he said.
即便如此，女性说的话数目是男性的三倍，这样的一个观念已经是成为了“都市传奇”
The belief that Coca-Cola works as an after-sex spermicide is nothing but urban legend, a scientist cautions in the British Medical Journal.
认为可口可乐能当做性行为后的杀精剂，其实只是谣言，一名科学家在「英国医学期刊」提醒。
Margaret was an Internet urban legend, and Wayne had researched more than a few sketchy photos on various paranormal sites.
要知道，玛格丽特在互联网上可是个传奇人物，就连怀恩都会去各种超自然网页搜索她的生活照。
An urban legend about the suicide outbreak seems to have sprung up almost instantaneously.
民间关于自杀大爆发的传说几乎是突如其来涌现出来的。
"Our results also suggest that the supposed effect of moon phase on medical complications is merely an urban legend, " he said.
研究结果还表明，月相对会增加并发症的发生只是坊间的传言。
Urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed by their tellers to be true.
都市流言是现代民间传说的一种，那些虚假故事被它们的讲述者演绎得可以以假乱真。
When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself?
第一次听到这个传闻的时候，我以为这是一个毫无根据的传说。怎麽有人能够藉由治疗自己的方式来治疗别人呢？
Folklorists have come up with a number of definitions for urban legend.
民俗学家们曾对都市传奇下过多个定义。
When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend.
第一次听到这个故事的时候，我认为这只是一个小道传闻。
FYI: Urban legend: A story, which may at one time have been true, that has grown from constant retelling into a mythical yarn.
参考信息：都市传奇：一个故事，过去发生过的真实事件，在事件的不断传播中逐渐成为一个神秘的传奇事件。
Hence, no two versions of an urban legend are ever exactly alike; there can be as many variants as there are tellers of the tale.
因此，没有任何两个版本的都市传说会完全的相似，他们就像故事的讲述者的不同而有所差别。
I decided to check out the facts on this urban legend.
我决定亲自查验一下这个都市传奇中的种种事实。
The grain of truth embedded in this urban legend is the fact that falling objects -- even ones that seem harmless -- can do a lot of damage.
不过在这个都市传说中，告诉了我们这样一个道理。高空坠物（即使是看似毫无杀伤力的物体）能造成很大的损失。
That story isn't true, of course; it's an urban legend, circulating by word of mouth since the 1970s.
当然，这故事不是真的，这是一个都市传传说，从二十世纪七十年代口口相传至今。
"I'm curious about [it], but it's so shrouded in urban legend I'm not sure what's real and what's imaginary, " says Davies.
“我对它很好奇，但是它在都市传说中掩盖得如此严实，以至于我无法肯定什么是真实的，什么是想象，”Davies说。
Critics have largely rejected the above claims, arguing they are a combination of hoax and urban legend.
批评者很大程度上拒绝了上述的观点，争论说它们只不过是愚弄和城市传说的混合物。
Greta Garbo's screen legend had become Greta Garbo urban legend.
嘉宝的银幕神话转变成了嘉宝的都市童话。
Indeed, the number of suicides was far more modest than the urban legend implied.
事实上，自杀数量远没有都市传言暗示的那么多。
Rick: The bald killer clone? Come on, Jack. He's an urban legend. Even the CIA and your own FBI say he doesn't exist.
那个脑袋光秃秃不长毛的克隆杀手？少来了，杰克。他只是一个流传在城市中的传说，何况CIA和你的FBI早就说过他根本不存在。
Don't buy the urban legend that Inuit cultures have hundreds of words for snow.
据说，因纽特文化在雪一词的解释上有几百个。千万不要相信这种坊间说法。
the film tells the urban legend of chucky and tiffany .
这部电影讲述了一个关于强克和蒂芬妮都市传奇。
Regardlessof its false premise, this letter has all the ingredients of an urban legend - no names, vague references to location, no dates.
无论其错误的前提，这封信的所有成分的城市传奇-没有名字，含糊地提及位置，没有日期。
According to an urban legend, bank robber Willie Sutton was once asked: "Why do you rob banks? "
在关于这个城市的很多传说中，有一个是这样讲述的：有人曾经问银行大盗WillieSutton：“你为什么抢银行？”
I think it's an urban legend.
那不过是一种都市传说。
my grandmather always told me some urban legend to make me go to bed early
我奶奶总是讲一些吓人的民间传说好让我早点睡觉
In brief, an urban legend will typically exhibit most or all of the following aracteristics
简要地说，一个都市传说通常会有以下所列的多个典型特征
you find that funny ? - she ' s an urban legend , sir
你觉得这个很好笑吗？-她是城里一段传奇
