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单词 mythical
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mythical
(mɪθɪkəl )
1. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
Something or someone that is mythical exists only in myths and is therefore imaginary.
...the Hydra, the mythical beast that had seven or more heads.
...traditional stories woven around a pantheon of gods and mythical figures.
Synonyms: legendary, storied, fabulous, imaginary  
2. adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun]
If you describe something as mythical, you mean that it is untrue or does not exist.
...the American West, not the mythical, romanticized West of cowboys and gunslingers, but the real West.
...trying to preserve a mythical sense of nationhood.
Synonyms: imaginary, made-up, fantasy, invented  
Collocations:
mythical being
Write the names of the pictures into the grid so that the pink squares spell out a mythical being.
The Sun
He believed in ghosts and spirits, the mythical beings and creatures of folklore.
The Times Literary Supplement
The game also features animals and mythical beings.
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Similar public rituals were used in the cases of taboo breaches that endangered the whole community (bringing the wrath of mythical beings causing calamities).
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The lintel, sill and jamb are ornamented with figures of deities, mythical beings, dragons, peacocks, auspicious jars and other elements.
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mythical bird
However, in 2011, the student body voted in favor of a mythical bird as a mascot following a student-led initiative.
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This mythical bird was said to live for five hundred years before being consumed by fire.
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This prominent display of two liver birds rekindled the idea that the liver was a mythical bird that once haunted the local shoreline.
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I assumed that this was because they were mythical birds: at any rate, birds that people like me were doomed never to see.
Times, Sunday Times
Above the large halo behind the statue are sculpted representations of lotus flowers, celestial beings and mythical birds.
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mythical past
Echoes of this mythical past resound throughout his impressive oeuvre of at least 30 books, depending on how you count.
Christianity Today
The tenses vary, sometimes reassuring us with the safe feeling of a mythical past, sometimes threatening us with the precariousness of an urgent historic present.
Times, Sunday Times
He can recite the names and fates of generations of his ancestors stretching far back into the mythical past.
Times, Sunday Times
She became a clownish figure who would invariably enter at unforeseen moments, wearing outlandish costumes which related to her almost mythical past experiences.
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This represented the ancient and mythical past.
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mythical status
Some players gain mythical status when they become a cause célèbre in the eyes of fans and media.
Times, Sunday Times
He was utterly serious and focused on changing the world through his music, but he also cultivated his mythical status.
Times, Sunday Times
When it works, it gives coaches mythical status within the sport.
The Sun
Married seven times, his family called him 'a pioneer who achieved a mythical status'.
The Sun
A clash over the rights meant it never went on general release, but the film's circulation in bootlegged form lent it a mythical status.
Times, Sunday Times
mythical story
It becomes a superhero story and a mythical story, all revolving around turning the world into a world full of superheroes.
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Historians say that the book has perplexity and mythical story as it written by various authors in various durations.
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There are some mythical stories about the destruction of this village.
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In more mythical stories, it was also said that the flies that brought pestilence died immediately upon propitiatory sacrifices of this bird.
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On one hand, mythical stories are fantastic and unpredictable: the content of myth seems completely arbitrary.
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mythical tale
Even the names - amaranth, cocobolo, bubinga and ziricote - seem to come from the pages of a mythical tale.
The Times Literary Supplement
A local mythical tale has surrounded the cave.
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Mythical tales told of him living in space but recent reconstructions show he was probably blown to bits.
The Sun
Friendly staff regale mythical tales of renowned sights.
The Sun
She has written a number of books - mainly mythical tales, as well as a long and vivid autobiography - but has never enjoyed much luck with publishers.
The Times Literary Supplement
mythical world
The novel presents a mythical world where storytelling has been banned and storytellers, or bards, have been put to death.
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In the single-player campaign, the player traverses a mythical world collecting various cards to use in duels.
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It has been noted for its seamless production and has been described as a textured soundscape of a mythical world of rhymes, jazz and urban ambiance.
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I suggested that such disappointments must have been common in the mythical worlds.
Times, Sunday Times
With ancient instruments and strange words, he takes his listeners to mystical, mythical worlds in distant times.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 神话中的
Japanese: 神話上の
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