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小知识
A myth is a story that’s told again and again and serves to explain why something is the way it is. A creation myth, for example, is a story that tells how the world came into being.
You may have studied Greek or Roman myths in which gods and goddesses wage war and play tricks on each other. These myths are not necessarily true stories from the past — the main idea is that they explain certain ideas about the world and how people act. The story might be accepted as true and serve to explain some fact about the world, or it might be known to be made-up but nevertheless illustrates something about people or history.
实用短语
单词用法
这组词都可以表示叙事性的文字。它们的区别是:
1.account,fable,legend,myth,story,tale是一般用词;anecdote是正式用词。
2.account指对于某事的详细说明,原原本本,有头有尾,多用于报道事实;
story指取悦于人的完整故事,有人物,有情节,有头有尾,可口头也可书面,可真实也可虚构,体裁上则既可为诗体,也可为散文体;
anecdote指轶事趣闻,一般较短,有趣味;
fable指寓言,主人公多为拟人化的动物或非生物,多为虚构,旨在说明一个道理或教训,而寓言则多在结尾处点明;
legend指民间传说或传奇故事,多含虚幻成分;
myth指神话,特指与宗教或原始文明有关的故事,多以超人的力量去解释自然现象或人生;
tale指故事或传说,即或有事实根据也多添枝加叶或夸张,含荒唐不可信的意味。
同义词
同根词
词根:myth
adj.mythical神话的;虚构的
mythological神话的;神话学的;虚构的
mythic神话的;虚构的
n.mythology神话;神话学;神话集
mythologist神话学者;神话作者
vt.mythicize视为神话;解释为神话
mythologize写神话;当做神话;把……解释为神话