urban legend

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to tell fact from fiction and read about an urban legend.

本课结束，你能够分辨事实和虚构，阅读一个都市传奇。

In this aspect, I intended to proceed in two ways: on the one hand is a romantic narrative strategies of urban legend.

在这一方面，我意于从两个方面着手：一方面是浪漫的都市传奇化的叙事策略。

Folklore may be passed along in verbal form, like the urban legend that we hear about from friends who assure us that it really happened to a friend of their cousin.

民俗可以是以口头形式传播的，就像我们在朋友那儿听到的都市传奇故事，叙事者会向我们保证那确实是发生在他们亲人或者朋友身上的真事；

Sounds more like an urban legend than the Chesapeake Ripper, no?

听起来更像是都市传奇，而不是切萨皮克开膛手，不是吗

This tale is most likely where the urban legend regarding the waking of sleepwalkers originated.

关于叫醒梦游者的传闻最有可能来源于此。

What was urban legend's becoming heroic.

都市传奇成为英雄了

The story of Pinky Pinky is an urban legend and old wives' tale rolled into one.

粉鬼（Pinky Pinky）的故事是由都市传说和荒诞故事杂糅而成。

Greta Garbo's screen legend had become Greta Garbo urban legend.

嘉宝的银幕神话转变成了嘉宝的都市童话.

" Our results also suggest that the supposed effect of moon phase on medical complications is merely an urban legend," he said.

研究结果还表明，月相对会增加并发症的发生只是坊间的传言。

So there's a urban legend that Peter wrote the song in memory of his girlfriend.

所以Peter写了这首歌缅怀他的女朋友。如果这个故事是真实的话，这首歌就不难理解了。Peter唱的是一直没等到她：

It's just urban legend bullshit.

纯粹是荒谬的都市传说。

Then came news that what seemed like an urban legend is actually true:

然后新闻上出现了好像都市传奇剧情那样的真实依据：

This urban legend begins on a cold winter day with a young couple who were having a christening party in their home for their new baby.

故事是这样开始的，在一个寒冷的冬季夜晚，一对年轻夫妇为了给他们刚出生的孩子洗礼在家举行派对。

That story isn't true, of course; it's an urban legend, circulating by word of mouth since the1970s.

当然，这故事不是真的，这是一个都市传传说，从二十世纪七十年代口口相传至今。

Or is that an urban legend?

还是这是一个都市传说？

Greta Garbos screen legend had become Greta Garbo urban legend.

嘉宝的银幕神话转变成了嘉宝的都市童话。

A group of friends on a weekend camping trip decide to investigate a local urban legend.

在一次周末野营旅行中，一群伙伴决定去调查一个当地的都市传说。

I think it's an urban legend.

那不过是一种都市传说。

I love a good urban legend.

我喜欢美好的都市传说

Q.What is an urban legend?

什么是都市传奇？

Hence, no two versions of an urban legend are ever exactly alike; there can be as many variants as there are tellers of the tale.

因此，没有任何两个版本的都市传说会完全的相似，他们就像故事的讲述者的不同而有所差别。

What's the real story, not the urban legend, but the truth?

真实情况是什么？抛开那些传闻，真实情况

I was told just like everyone else it was just an urban legend.

所有人都说团体的背后隐藏着一个都市神话。

Despite urban legend, there's no advantage in being a double major& and there are many disadvantages.

尽管有很多城市传奇，但是选择双学位（double major）没什么好处&相反，还有很多坏处。

But new research suggests that the so-called Chinese restaurant syndrome is nothing more than urban legend.

但是新的研究表明,所谓中国餐馆综合症实为子虚乌有,那只不过是一种城市传说而已.

We actually started an urban legend.

这个都市传说是我们传起来的。

It might sound like a urban legend, but a Japanese girl with stinky feet might have killed fishes with her fungal affliction.

听起来可能像是都市传奇，但一位日本少女真的因为饱受细菌折磨，造成脚臭熏死了鱼。

I always thought that was an urban legend.

我一直以为只是城市里故事而已。

but the urban legend is wrong about the husband.

但关于丈夫的传闻有误

Indeed, the number of suicides was far more modest than the urban legend implied.

事实上，自杀数量远没有都市传言暗示的那么多。