| 单词 | myth |
| 释义 | myth (once / 407 pages) n 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. WORD FAMILYmyth: mythic, mythical, mythicise, mythicize, myths+/mythic: mythically/mythicize: mythicized USAGE EXAMPLESSometimes, before sleep, he would talk to the heroes from Hawthorne’s “Greek Myths.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The Medal Myth will be broadcast on BBC One Scotland on Monday 2 January at 20:30. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) In “Mastering the Art of Quitting,” for example, Peg Streep and Alan Bernstein reject the “myth of persistence.” New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) n a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people Hypo|Hyper Gotterdammerung, Ragnarok, Twilight of the Gods myth about the ultimate destruction of the gods in a battle with evil story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events |
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