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词汇 urban-myth
释义 urban myth
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌɜː.bən ˈmɪθ/ us /ˌɝː.bən ˈmɪθ/(alsourban legend)
a story or statement that is not true but is often repeated, and believed by many to be true都市神话(广为传播、被许多人相信,但并不真实的故事)
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
strand
write something up

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Examples of urban myth


urban myth
It is no good saying that the problem does not exist, and that it is a modern urbanmyth or perception and not reality.
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That point is developing the characteristics of an urbanmyth.
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It was somewhat equivalent to the urbanmyth that we have read about in the newspapers.
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It is a political urbanmyth that the other place shows great independence of mind.
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We are pandering to the urbanmyth of the compensation culture, rather than correcting such misconceptions.
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These tests are assumed by researchers to be the nucleus of the current urbanmyth.
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There is an urbanmyth that there was once a railway station or halt there.
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The statement does not address any documented news events of discrimination and claims to debunk these events as urbanmyth.
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Anecdotal evidence suggesting they have an aphrodisiac effect is likely to be an urbanmyth.
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This led to the urbanmyth that the road had given its name to the cigarette brand, f6.
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Some consider the subject to be an urbanmyth with repeated corroboration by 2 or more people.
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Urbanmyth attributed a number of car accidents to (male) drivers being distracted by the advertisements.
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This is a local legend or urbanmyth surrounding a being who abducts local children who are never seen again.
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It is, however, suggested, that this is an urbanmyth.
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Sometimes the line between truth and urbanmyth is blurred by the sensationalist sections of the media.
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