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词汇 mythological
释义 mythological
adjective
uk /ˌmɪθ.əlˈɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˌmɪθ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
existing in or relating to myths(= ancient stories): 神话学的;神话(中)的
Of all mythological beasts, dragons seem to attract the most interest.
Jason was the mythological Greek hero who sailed in search of the Golden Fleece on a ship named the Argo.
Pelicans were chosen for their mythological symbolism.
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mythic
mythical
For centuries, the chimera has been known as a scary mythological creature made from bits of lion, goat and snake.
Hydra was the Greek name for a many-headed, mythological sea serpent.
Vampires have been a potent metaphor and mythological motif for centuries.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accounts and stories
anecdote
another
anti-narrative
backstory
be another storyidiom
bodice-ripper
cautionary tale
horror story
in medias res
kompromat
legend
legendary
lore
rundown
running commentaryphrase
scenario
semi-legendary
shaggy-dog story
strand
write something up

Examples of mythological


mythological
These works tend to be either occasional/celebratory or mythological, and to date no covert or subversive commentaries have been discerned in them.
The book presents a wide-ranging and rich mix of psychological, ethnomusicological, philosophical, educational, mythological and theological material.
The nature of this opposition was, therefore, mythological rather than spatial.
One is a mythological bird with the head of a feathered serpent in the wing.
Decoration on each serpent temple depicts mythological scenes signifying creation events and warning of inevitable cosmic destruction.
To this general notion of symbolic fiction, we must add that religious discourse on the present view is mythological.
Women in textbooks are most likely to appear in traditional roles, such as a farmer, or as mythological figures, such as witches.
But time had passed since those almost mythological pages of academic history had been written.
Wooden hand holding a disc with carved mythological scenes.
I am dealing with the earlier mythological period.
The question of the origins of life is a human question; indeed, as noted earlier, it is a basic mythological question.
The relationship between individual and persona is considerably more integrated than that between representation (literary, artistic, mythological, hagiographic) and reality.
Dancers, however, usually played lesser mythological figures such as ' amori', ' ciclopi', ' driadi', ' fauni', or ' zeffiri'.
To avoid the pitfalls of such mythological history it was necessary to avoid narrative history altogether.
She takes the theatricality out of high drama, reduces the mythological to something banal.
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