I thought that a fairy tale was just a written version of an oral folktale.
我以为童话只是那些口头传说的书面版本。
"Gobbledegook" sounds like the name of a monster in a fairy tale.
这个词听起来像是神话传说中某个妖怪的名字。
Superstitions are no laughing matter in Romania -the land of the medieval ruler who inspired the "Dracula" tale -and have been part of its culture for centuries.
迷信在罗马尼亚可不是闹着玩的，吸血鬼的传说自中世纪起就在这个国家流传，并已成为该国文化的一部分。
One (possibly apocryphal) tale tells of reindeer dying because they were unable to breathe, so thick were the clouds of insects.
传说(也许不是真的)讲到有驯鹿因为空中的昆虫稠密到不能呼吸的地步而死去。
An example is the conjurer, an extraordinary tale of a conjurer trying to persuade the spectator that he's pulling toads or frogs out of his mouth.
巫师就是一个例证，这是一个吊诡的传说，一个巫师正试图说服观众他正在从嘴里拽出蟾蜍和青蛙。
And like all enduring legends, the tale of El Dorado contains some scraps of truth.
和其他所有不朽的传说一样，黄金国的故事也包含一些支离破碎的真实成分。
It was supposed to be a moral tale reminding people that we are all in this together, no exceptions are made.
这种画据说是一种寓意教诲的传说，告诉人们：天下人无不死死相依，无一例外。
Alas, this happy tale is only partly true.
哎！。动人的传说只是部分属实。
So it grew into something of a Big Foot or Loch Ness Monster tale, until one day I actually saw it too - and it had been right under my nose the whole time.
于是，这本手册就成了大脚野人、尼斯水怪一类的传说，直到有一天，我亲眼见到了它——它一直都在我的眼皮底下。
One of the best-known stories tells the tale of the demoness Holika, who tried to kill Prahlad, the son of the demon king Hiranyakashyap, for refusing to worship his father.
其中最出名的一个故事就是关于小魔女霍利嘉的传说。她试图杀死魔鬼国王希兰·亚卡·西普的儿子普拉·拉德，因为他拒绝崇拜他的父亲，相反的是，霍丽嘉被火烧死了。
Architecturally, the two-storey box tells a very 21st-century tale of bottom-line design.
从建筑造价来讲，这个两层的盒子的花费简直可以成为21世纪的传说了。
It could be a folk tale. It could be a history book.
可以是民间传说，也可以是历史书。
“New Moon”, a tale of vampires, werewolves and the women who love them, earned more in a single day at the American box office than any film in history.
“新月”，一个吸血鬼的传说，狼人和爱他们的女人们，创造北美票房史上单日第一。
Although this series has become even more famous after being filmed, it's fair to say that the tale of Middle Earth is an ingenious work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
尽管魔戒系列在拍成电影后更加有名了，不得不说这个中土传说是托尔金的天才之作。
This is not your grandfather's Snow White. Melisa went back to the 500 year old folk tale and put in some of the things that were missing from Walt Disney's film.
这不是你爷爷辈的人看过的《白雪公主》，梅丽莎追溯到500年前的民间传说，给故事里加入了迪斯尼动画中缺失的内容。
The festivities were to have included a short new ballet, "the Far Shore", based loosely on the folk tale that inspired "Swan Lake".
庆祝活动本来包括一小段新芭蕾舞《远处河岸》，这是一段根据民间传说改编的舞蹈，与“天鹅湖”同出一源。
CONSUME more water and you will become much healthier, goes an old wives' tale.
喝水越多你就会越健康，是个遥远的传说。
Is it an old wives tale or can deaf people actually see better?
聋人的视力真的比正常人好吗？还是这只是老妇人的传说？
Excepting the occasional names of passers-by, Xu's labor of love is mainly concentrated on telling an old tale known as LAN hua, or "blue flower."
期待路人的日常名字，徐老的主要工作集中在讲述兰花的古老传说。
THE story of Ireland is like a fairy tale: from rags to riches and back to rags again.
爱尔兰的故事犹如一个传说：从一个贫穷落后的国家一度跃为富裕之国，而后又跌落为贫穷国家。
We have the dialectic of suspense on the one hand, how will this be resolved, and inevitability on the other, "Oh, it's a folk tale, it'll be resolved, don't worry about it."
我们一方面有悬念的对立，就不可避免地会有，另一个方面，即这个会怎样解决，“哦，这是个传说，这会解决的，不用担心它？”
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
那是关于分离或相遇的古老传说。
The scientific tale of love begins innocently enough, with voles.
关于爱情的科学传说始于田鼠。
Each item and character has its own place in the tale.
图腾柱上的每个物品及人物在传说中都有自己独有的地位。
Martin Margiela has gone all transparent with these glass slippers that look straight from the Cinderella fairy tale.
全透明的玻璃鞋，这就是传说中灰姑娘的水晶鞋啊！
Naturally, it is an imaginary tale.
这当然是人们虚构的传说。
In each there are spells and potions and wands and spell books, all the trappings of classic fairy tale magic.
两者中都有咒语、魔药、魔杖和魔咒书，这是所有经典精灵传说中魔法的装饰。
In each there are spells and potions and wands and spell books, all the trappings of classic fairy tale magic.
两者中都有咒语、魔药、魔杖和魔咒书，这是所有经典精灵传说中魔法的装饰。
应用推荐