有种传说，美国西部的枪手们每杀死一个人就在他们的枪柄上刻下一个V形记号。

It is a myth that gunslingers in the American west cut notches in the handle of their pistol for each man they shot.

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与书面故事不同，口述传说并非由任何一人所创造。

Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one person.

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许多说故事人会叙说祖国的传说及远古神话。

Many tell tales and ancient myths from their faraway homelands.

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We also know of a very early Semitic work, the Epic of Atrahasis, in which there's a flood.

我们也听过古老的闪米特人，《阿特拉哈西斯》中大洪水的传说。

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A myth, in this sense, according to the Greeks,is just a tale.

对希腊人来说就是一个传说

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The kind of myth of the commune was, of course, that from the conservatives' point of view was that these were the furies of hell, the men and the women who rose up to slay their social betters.

有关公社还有一种传说,当然,这是保守派的看法,传说这些人都是来自地狱的怒火,人们揭竿而起去打倒上层社会阶级

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