Myth

(noun.) a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people.

阿弗丽达整理

• Without a blush he informs us that this central gospel of the working class is simply a myth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It must not be supposed that respect for the myth is a discovery of Sorel's. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• This sense of mastery in a winning battle against the conditions of our life is, I believe, the social myth that will inspire our reconstructions. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Lady St. Simon is a myth. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The myth is not one of the outgrown crudities of our pagan ancestors. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Every Greek state had a myth respecting its own origin; the Platonic republic may also have a tale of earthborn men. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Her myth ought to be taken to heart amongst the Tyburnians, the Belgravians--her story, and perhaps Becky's too. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• For it is Theodore Roosevelt who is actually attempting to make himself and his admirers the heroes of a new social myth. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• His doctrine of the social myth has seemed to many commentators one of those silly paradoxes that only a revolutionary syndicalist and Frenchman could have put forward. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• As in the Republic, there is a myth, describing, however, not a future, but a former existence of mankind. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• All three are in the region of dramatic system-making and myth, to which probabilities are irrelevant. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• In such a test the Christian myth, for example, would be valued for its power of incarnating human desire. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Their creation myth proclaims: Merodach next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws which they were never to transgress. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of fact. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Myths must be judged as instruments for acting upon present conditions; all discussion about the manner of applying them concretely to the course of history is senseless. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The philosophy of Heracleitus cannot be shown to be borrowed from Zoroaster, and still less the myths of Plato. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Revolutionary myths . 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The history of the world is full of great myths which have had the most concrete results. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It is not all on the same plane; it easily passes from ideas to myths and fancies, from facts to figures of speech. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• During their life these social myths contain a nation's finest energy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• We, in the midst of our science and our rationalism, are still making myths, and their force is felt in the actual affairs of life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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