| 词汇 | mythology |
| 释义 | mythology noun[ U ] uk /mɪˈθɒl.ə.dʒi/ us /mɪˈθɑː.lə.dʒi/ mythologynoun[U] (ANCIENT STORIES)myths in general: 神话 She's fascinated by the stories of classical mythology (= ancient Greek and Roman myths).她被古典神话故事迷住了。 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 mythologynoun[U] (POPULAR BELIEF)a popular belief that is probably not true: 普遍但错误的看法 It's just a piece of popular mythology that people always get sacked when they are away from the office.缺勤会遭到解雇其实是一种普遍的错误观念。 Opinions, beliefs and points of view accepted wisdom Afrocentric agnosticism anti-drug anti-ideological bubble creed have/take a notion to do somethingidiom helicopter view heretical heretically hot take pole politics posture pretension prism proposition recency bias tick mythology | American Dictionarymythology noun[ U ] us/mɪˈθɑl·ə·dʒi/ myths in general: We’re studying classical mythology in English. Examples of mythologymythology One finds a similar conflict in other cultures, other mythologies, other cosmologies. Archaeological sites are the liminal spaces of later mythologies. Looking at them closely allows us to see how a great achievement of literary mimesis explores its own mythologies of art. Polytheism is merely a later reworking of this primal content, which is now dispersed through a series of diversified mythologies. In the grand tradition, local rockers have employed such dichotomies within performance mythologies and marketing strategies. They celebrated the prosaic and "natural" causes over the fantastic claims of the mythologies and allegories. Bearing in mind our severely limited working memory capacity, susceptibility to religious mythologies may comprise an adaptive heuristic approach to summarizing the contingencies of the most far-reaching of life's problems. The conversion of city and suburban spaces to local places of performance fed into nationalist mythologies, which in turn masked the tortuous processes involved in this transformation. By studying one thinker who has contributed much to the development of a certain type of political thought we might, as a result, avoid the problem of simply re-creating mythologies. As with so many other 'revolutions' the official mythology has it that before the revolution there was nothing; everything began with the revolution. I warned explicitly for a mystification of particularity and the dangers of a return to mythology. While seeming, temporarily, to have reinforced the mythology of manliness, did they not, in the end, bear witness to the extreme fragility of masculine identity? I am therefore glad of the opportunity to dispel misconceptions and mythologies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He really went a long way to puncture the mythologies and nonsenses that are apt to grow as feeling grows in this matter. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Several speakers have made reference to the way in which this report debunks and dispels mythologies such as sovereignty. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of mythology 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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