"He created all the legends about himself.He used to say 'never let the truth get in the way of a good story.' But when you're playing him you have to take away all of those just peel him back to try and find the truth."

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The legends, just stories from generation to generation, changed, and molded, but nonetheless, retaining certain elements of the earlier tradition.

那些传奇,仅仅是一些代代相传的故事,它们被改编,被扭曲,尽管这样,仍保留了一些早期的传统元素

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

We also have etymological legends, because they're explaining the name of something. It's given this particular name because of an etymomological connection with some event earlier.

我们还有词源传说，它们用于解释,一些事物的名称，它以这个特定的名字命名是因为,它和更早期的历史事件有着词源方面的联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

When you open it up and look at the table of contents, you see titles of poems, and underneath those titles are little legends and moralizations.

当你们打开看到目录时，看到诗歌的题目，下面,是些小的传说故事和教化故事。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选