那不过是一种都市传说。
是事实还是传说?
The urban legend is part of our make-up.
部分城市的传说是我们的化妆。
That's just an urban legend - it's not real!
那只是一个传言,不是真实的。
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。
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。
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。
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。
I decided to check out the facts on this urban legend. And they may surprise you.
我决定亲自查验一下这个都市传奇中的种种事实。最后得出的结论可能令你大吃一惊。
Despite urban legend, there's no advantage in being a double major-and there are many disadvantages.
尽管有很多城市传奇,但是选择双学位(double major)没什么好处——相反,还有很多坏处。
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。
But new research suggests that the so-called Chinese restaurant syndrome is nothing more than urban legend.
但是新的研究表明,所谓中国餐馆综合症实为子虚乌有,那只不过是一种城市传说而已。
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。
The urban legend goes that if you go to the Google homepage and search for "Google", the universe will implode.
有这么一个传说,如果你在Google的主页搜索“Google”,那么宇宙将会爆炸。
Rick:The bald killer clone?Come onJack. 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。
The symbol of this curse is a black stigmata on the right hand of whomever becomes Serena's lover. Urban legend stuff?
这种诅咒的记号是右手上的黑色伤痕,使这人永远爱上塞莉娜。
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。
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。
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 concept of six degrees of separation came to public attention after an experiment in the Sixties, but is seen today as more of an urban legend.
六度分离的概念引起公众关注是在60年代的一项实验之后,在今天看来这更像是一个民间传说。
Generally speaking, an urban legend is any modern, fictional story, told as truth, that reaches a wide audience by being passed from person to person.
粗略而言,都市传奇指的是经过人们互相传达,为众人知晓并信以为真的当代的、虚构的故事。
The urban legend reference Web site Snopes.com put the kibosh on the rumor that gum stays in you for years, and medical science confirms the site's conclusion.
Urban legend引述Snopes.com的文章,终结了“口胶在身体里呆几年”的说法,医学研究也证实了网站的结论。
An active Internet hoax, of the urban legend type, falsely claims that KFC (Kentucky Fried chicken) is using genetically engineered organisms instead of chickens.
一则流行的网络骗局,以谣言的形式,错误地声明KFC(肯塔基炸鸡)使用的是转基因有机物而不是真正的鸡。
Although it sounds like urban legend, this futuristic building was inspired by a baked potato served to the architect during a dinner for the American Institute of Architects.
它象一个城市的传奇,但这所未来派的建筑设计灵感却来源于美国建筑学院建筑师们宴会上提供的烤土豆。
"The reason we studied redheads in the beginning, it was essentially an urban legend in the anesthesia community saying redheads were difficult to anesthetize," Dr. Sessler said.
“我们一开始之所以研究红发是因为它在麻醉学界建立了一个传说即红发人麻醉管理很难,”Sessler医生说。
'I was fascinated by the urban legend that Eskimo has 50 words for snow, and the idea that a culture will develop a richer vocabulary for things it cares, ' said Mr Lee on Reddit.
“我对都市传奇十分着迷,比如爱斯基摩人对于‘雪’有50个单词来表达,而且文化的繁荣会丰富描述物件的词汇,这十分有意义,”李先生在红迪网上说道。
'I was fascinated by the urban legend that Eskimo has 50 words for snow, and the idea that a culture will develop a richer vocabulary for things it cares, ' said Mr Lee on Reddit.
“我对都市传奇十分着迷,比如爱斯基摩人对于‘雪’有50个单词来表达,而且文化的繁荣会丰富描述物件的词汇,这十分有意义,”李先生在红迪网上说道。
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