现在我们已经讨论过了民间传说，并且我们看到它们的主要特征之一是在其背后都有一个真实的故事。

Now we've talked about folk legends and seen that their one of their key features is there's usually a real story behind them.

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我们想出了各种各样的解释，结果它们要么半真半假，要么只是偏见或传说。

We've contrived various justifications that turn out to be half-truths, prejudices or myths.

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那为什么我们要认为2012年的传说与众不同？

Why should we think that the 2012 legends are anydifferent?

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Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

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And we have this myth that if you go into more than 3 libraries in your freshman year, you will not graduate.

我们有这样一个传说，如果你在大一的时候去过三个以上的图书馆，那你就毕不了业。

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Dr. Peter Salovey, Dean of Yale College, is going to come to us on Valentine's Day and tell us everything he knows about the mysteries of love.

彼得·萨洛维博士,耶鲁大学的院长,将在情人节那天前来,给我们讲述他所知道的爱情传说

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