Directionally, they capture the trends, but the idea that we know precisely how many are unemployed is a myth.

从方向上看，他们抓住了趋势，但我们要确切知道有多少人失业的想法仍然不太现实。

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Many mothers schooled their daughters in the myth of female inferiority.

许多母亲用男尊女卑的错误观念教育女儿。

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A myth is something that is not correct, but many people believe.

神话是指一些许多人相信但并不正确的事情。

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"So its a very inspirational story. There are so many aspects of the myth that are not true.

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There are many other instances of this myth-making imagination that Yeats is always working with.

还有很多这样叶芝用想象力,进行神话创作的的例子。

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Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

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The delusion involved in the fourth myth may shock many - my computer contains nothing of value.

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Myth-making is common in many countries.

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No one embodied that myth in the eyes of many more surely than Thomas Edison, the very symbol of the tinkering genius alone (supposedly) in his lab.

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