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词汇 saga
释义 saga
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsɑː.ɡə/ us /ˈsɑː.ɡə/
a long story about Scandinavian history, written in the Old Norse language in the Middle Ages, mainly in Iceland: 萨迦(中世纪主要在冰岛用古诺斯语写成的斯堪的纳维亚长篇传奇)
Norse sagas诺斯萨迦,北欧传奇
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epicnoun
folk tale
legend(STORY)
myth(ANCIENT STORY)
a long story about past events over a long period of time: 长篇故事
Her new novel is a lengthy and compelling family saga.她最新的一部小说是一个篇幅宏大、扣人心弦的家族传奇。
a long complicated series of related, usually negative, events: (通常指负面的)系列事件,一长串事件
It was just another episode in the ongoing saga of their marriage problems.这只是他们层出不穷的婚姻问题中的又一个插曲。
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
reminiscence
rundown
running commentaryphrase
scenario
semi-legendary
write something up
yarn

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Ancient history: before 500 AD
Middle Ages (medieval Period) 501-1500
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Events and occurrences

saga | American Dictionary


saga
noun[ C ]
us/ˈsɑɡ·ə/
literature
a long, detailed story of connected events:
The Gold Rush was just one chapter in the saga of the old West.

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Seen from this perspective, it is understandable that the notion that the urnfields and barrows were funerary monuments is never found in the sagas.
A crucial question is that of the historical depth of the sagas connected with prehistoric burial monuments.
Secondly, there is the group of umfield sites connected with sagas about witches and, occasionally, the devil.
Prehistoric barrows or urnfields connected with sagas.
When people have been through such sagas they will accept a house on top of a cliff, in the middle of a moor or anywhere.
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Two issues are, once again, causing major concern, both of them long-running sagas.
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I hope that, in view of the series of sagas, he will listen and act.
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However, unless proper care in the community is available related to the individual cases, there will be tragedies and there will be distressing sagas concerning aimless, homeless and ill people.
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The saga of the family's rise and fall mirrors its success and failures in implementing the techniques of politica de familia.
Accounts of "seir" later made it into sagas and other literary sources, while further evidence has been unearthed by archaeologists.
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Like the sagas, the book relies on verbs and nouns to drive the narrative, with only a minimum of adjectives and descriptive passages.
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Icelandic sagas make many references to sea voyages.
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Also, perhaps from the 10th century onwards, previously independent sagas and story cycles were added to the compilation...
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He was deeply inspired by the medieval romances and sagas; his style was deliberately archaic, based on medieval romances.
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Only one half-stanza of it has been preserved in the kings' sagas.
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