Five minutes into a conversation, Albanians were telling you how they'd descended from the ancient Greeks. The Illyrians. Those folk tales had come from somewhere.

谈话中有5分钟，阿尔巴尼亚人总是在告诉你他们是怎样从古希腊衍生出来的，而这些都是来自于伊利·里亚的民间传说。

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Mirmirani can't confirm the old wives' tales that tell you if you yank one gray hair, five more will sprout up.

马诺·莫尼医生不能确认老妇人讲的如果你拔一根白发，五根将会长出来的传言。

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They inspired Geoffrey Chaucer, whose "Canterbury Tales" contain five fabliaux, and Giovanni Boccaccio's "Decameron" draws on them as well, says Yale University French professor R.

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In New York City , the savviest of visitors make a beeline for The Moth, the storytelling competition where ten audience members volunteer to tell true tales (under five minutes long), which are often broadcast on its popular podcast.

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But inside his head, in thousands of tales and ballads handed down for five centuries, lived kings, witches, demons and mermaids.

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