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神话
Myth
I am not a myth.
我不是神话。
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
毕竟,神话是一个永无止境的故事。
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
人们相信的神话往往会变成事实。
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness.
你的神话的深度是你的效力的程度。
A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
神话是我们试图理解世界的一种形象。
My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
作为一名喜剧演员,我唯一的目标就是打破模特少数族裔的神话。
In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.
换句话说,我将屈服于一个我认为可以毁灭我们的相同的神话。
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
但神话不是对世界、历史和命运的解释。
It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better
认为有时创造性的分歧并不一定会产生更好的结果,这是一个神话
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.
它是一个神话,而不是命令;它是一个寓言,而不是逻辑;
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
历史就是现在。这就是为什么每一代人都在重新书写。但大多数人认为的历史是它的最终产物,神话。
We each have a personal myth, a vision of who we really are and what we want. Health means that part of what you want is to give to others.
我们每个人都有一个自己的神话,一个关于我们是谁和我们想要什么的愿景。健康意味着你想要的一部分是给予他人。
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
我相信想象力比知识更强大——神话比历史更强大——梦想比事实更强大——希望永远战胜经验——欢笑是治愈悲伤的良药——爱比死亡更强大。
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.
不,我不认为这是一个神话,就像整个国家正在经历的经济衰退是一个神话一样,它显然看起来会变得越来越糟。
MYTHOLOGY, 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.
神话(神话):原始人对其起源、早期历史、英雄、神灵等的信仰,有别于他们后来编造的真实故事。
As a rule the myth is no explanation of the origin of the ritual to any one who does not believe it to be a narrative of real occurrences, and the boldest mythologist will not believe that.
一般来说,神话不能向任何不相信它是真实事件的叙述的人解释仪式的起源,最大胆的神话学家也不会相信。
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic
真相的最大敌人往往不是谎言——故意的、做作的、不诚实的——而是神话——持久的、有说服力的、不切实际的
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
不加批判的语义学是博物馆的神话,在这个神话中,展品是意义,文字是标签。切换语言就是改变标签。