这个故事在人民中流传。

The story circulates among the people.

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在登山者中流传着一种迷信，那就是谁看到过“佛光”，将来就会死在登山的途中。

Among mountain climbers there is a superstition that a person who sees a Brocken Spectre will die in the mountains one day.

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在鼓吹效率的人中流传着一种神话，即效率或效率系统可通向一种类似于水若止水的禅思状态。

There is a myth among many productivity evangelists that productivity – or a productivity system – can lead to the meditative state likened to “mind like water.

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And so tradition just said, "Well if there are three gifts,there must be three kings."

所以传说在流传过程中，人们认为，“有三样礼物，那必定有三位国王“

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