| 词汇 | example_english_mythical |
| 释义 | Examples of mythicalThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Yeats's mythical archetypes are not always negative stereotypes. Yeats's use of these mythical archetypes is problematic. In each case the contrast between image and reality is stark, the" mythical" content unmistakable. The mythical value of the siege for the construction of protestant- loyalist hegemony should not be underrated. Instincts are mythical entities, magnificent in their indefiniteness. Here, cosmology characterises the farmers' world, which is made up of cosmic logics built on the old mythical world. The barrows, which were clearly visible in the landscape as 'unnatural' features, may have been related to earlier mythical inhabitants of the land. Thus, the study of sacred places and their material culture provides us insight into the mythical ordering of the integral landscape in the past. There are more mythical elements in our landscapes left than many of us perhaps would realize. Photographs can reveal the material richness of artifacts that we often dismiss as cliché, and enable kitsch and local idiosyncrasy to appear mythical and strange. Moreover, recitations of mythical stories and ritual performances provide the model for the 'good' life worthy of imitation. They interpret the burial/offering complexes as an expression of political authority in ritual and mythical terms. The author offers interesting oral histories of the establishment of chiefdoms associated with three mythical ancestors, and ritual centres associated with those chiefdoms. In this sense, the concept of shared care is becoming mythical. Lastly, an attempt has been made to estimate the significance of the various elements, historical, mythical and fictitious, of which the stories are composed. The identity of a nation consists, to a large extent, of a common, mythical or historically shared culture. The strongly mythical perception of the funerary monuments which remained intact in the uncultivated outer circle would suggest rather the opposite. To that extent, the destruction caused by the motorway releases a certain amount of mythical meaning into the landscape, into what remains. Architecture re-presents the primary mythical confrontation with gravity, elements, matter, space and light. Everywhere it has been marked by a deep nostalgia for return to a mythical past. The episode has now achieved a legendary and almost mythical status. Such fanciful narratives are "mythical" rather than realistic, and the identities they invent defy historical or scientific discursivity. In the following sections we ask whether the existence of the corporate governance channel in developing countries is real or mythical. Mythical belief and enchantment of the natural world are simply not coincident. No one doubts that these were mythical capital around which exchange and, perhaps, coinage were organized. The rigorous materialism of science leaves no room - in his opinion - for ideas of the sacred, formerly conveyed in mythical understanding of the world. What is currently most evident from the archaeological contexts is the fact that the state's military might was symbolically expressed in ritual and mythical terms. Euripides' pre-existing narrative (and its mythical sources) were subverted, deconstructed, and replaced by a new narrative. Even the state knows no more powerful unwritten laws than the mythical foundation that guarantees its connection with religion and its growth from mythical notions. The movement withers into silence, having 'eaten itself ' like the mythical serpent. In the first instance the folkloric evidence is used for constructing a model of the mythical perception of the landscape in subrecent rural communities. However mythical its origins, the concept of mentorship has survived the millennia intact. History was a normative matter; facts were structured according to mythical models. Hundreds of anonymous poetic satires and letters of the age were attributed to this mythical personage. A crucial point made is that the linguistic committees, through which elites pursue interests in the national political arena, manipulate historical and mythical narratives. The precise connection between cosmology, mythical narratives and ritual practice deserves more attention. He is ripped out of his cities, neighbourhoods and farms (his historical environment), and he is thrown into the desert (his mythical environment). A scientific discourse may replace this "mythical" narrative but would clearly enter into conflict with other established narratives functioning at the same symbolic level. Similarly, within these ritualized events, the composers whose works are being performed are frequently taken as something akin to mythical forefathers. Because the reptile effigies on the columns match scenes in codices, the various column pairs may display specific mythical events. Our guidebook places the personal, fictional, and mythical on an equal footing with factual, municipal history. However, the existence of extensive and complex mythical raven cycles may be a recent phenomenon. There is also a deeper sense in which the assignment of discoveries to individuals is mythical. Since archaeology is not able to contribute much to meaningful places, many people who still have a sense of place are in search of mythical landscapes. Myths, rituals and monuments help in remembering their deeds, in defining the organizing anchor points of the constitutive mythical geography and in making this imaginary world present in ordinary life. If, in modern times, we are dealing with a rational-economic and profane reading of the landscape, in the past it appears to have been experienced more in mythical terms. One solution that has not been considered by any proponent of the received view is that the burial anecdote, found in only two sources, is mythical. Modern western perception of space is not purely rational, as it would also be wrong to label the interpretation of space in pre-modern society as purely mythical. Here, too, the reader is made privy to an untold story, only this time the story is mythical, not personal, and its implications are far subtler. We once hiked across the island in search of a mythical coral reef and, arriving in the indescribably hot mid-afternoon, had stopped at a small coffee shop for lunch. The role of grandparents when parents part or die : some reflections on the mythical decline of the extended family. In another interview (1985b), he indicates that he is interested in space, but not in the 'complicated, anxious and mythical' discourse that is linked to it. 15. Fantastical beings combine animal with plant, real with mythical: visions of an unreal world pointing to a hidden spirit which slides behind a constantly changing and generative visible nature. At this point, the scene conveys strong symbolic and mythical qualities. Each of the chapters, for all that they offer material for the specialist, could equally draw in the (perhaps mythical) popular general reader or the interested undergraduate. Not being able fully to 'understand' a performance but instead letting that performance touch us on a deeper, sensory, and mythical level is simply too threatening for some. The other, more recent and less mythical, is the in-flight recorder, used to monitor the events in an aircraft's flight, for later analysis in case of difficulty. Also, legendary or mythical stories in general; mythological fiction. One sympathizes with the compilers' desire to have some touchstone for the advice they give, but an appeal to such mythical masters of the pen won't serve. A mythical itinerary and dwelling-place. They hanker after a largely mythical 19th century vision of laissez-faire. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People have been duped into believing that this mythical third way is possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Was there an agitation then against this mythical monstrous injustice? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The principle of double majority is not a mythical creature. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I happen to believe that social security is based on a generalisation and, like all generalisations, it is part mythical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The difficulty about dividing the week into seven is a mythical difficulty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, on this issue, we are in grave danger of going down a blind alley in search of a mythical perfection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I will take him to this man, who is not mythical, and he can talk to him personally. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We had a mythical pool of unemployment—with spectre rising from the pool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No measure will deal with the mythical person who is starving in a garret but about to produce the great novel of the century. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Now that the wages argu- ment has disappeared, we come back to the mythical figure of family income. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The social diversity which is often advanced as a major argument for the retention of the direct-grant school is purely mythical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The debate has been based upon nonsensical and mythical fears. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I sometimes think that this nation has a mythical reputation of being a nation of dog lovers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, the saving of£75 million seems to me to be completely mythical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We have good reason to compare him with the mythical deity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was a mythical sovereign in ancient times of whom it was said that everything which he touched turned to gold. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it going to be real or merely mythical. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All that is needed now is that mythical word, confidence. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I want to read a letter from a widow, not a mythical widow but a real widow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is the reason for this mythical idea that the private arms sector can be trusted all along the line and will deliver the goods? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The magical figure of 24 months is becoming more mythical than real. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I should not like to suggest that there is anything mythical about it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I believe therefore that the amendment which is before us is based on a mythical hypothesis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They believe in the mythical concept of a currency of which this country must under no circumstances lose control. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They cannot leave it all to a mythical and non-existent market. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not sure whether she was a mythical prophetess or not. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The other classic example of gross misleading is the selling of detergents with a mythical, invisible free half-pound. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The romanticism of the crystal palace, which has acquired almost mythical importance, is to end in pathos. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There can be nothing mythical about the fact that in the years 1982–86, some £47 million was spent on capital works in that district. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There was the mythical person earning £7 or £8 a week. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the absence of controls that are supposed to hurt the mythical capitalist beast, the very rich man receives £100 on the dividend paid out. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Does not this prove that the mythical industrial strategy has failed? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I know of no other case in this country where a pension scheme is calculated on the basis of a mythical higher salary. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 A great deal has been said one way or another in previous defence debates about the mythical "animal of defence". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I presume that he is to pay on some mythical value and the matter will be adjusted at a later stage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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