A being in folklore or myth similar to one of these beings.

巨人民间传说或神话中与以上的人种相似的人。

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I bought into the popular myth that when I got the new car or the next house, I'd finally be happy.

我相信了这种大众神话，以为只要买上新车或再买栋房子就会最终幸福起来。

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The myth of success has even invaded our personal relationships: today it's as important to be "successful" in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business.

成功神话甚至已经侵入了我们的人际关系：今天，在婚姻或为人父母中取得“成功”和在事业中取得成功一样重要。

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So this is a myth in the sense that it's explaining some custom or ritual among the people.

这有点神话色彩,它解释了人类中间的一些习俗和仪式。

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One consequence of this view is that for Yeats history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth.

这导致了,叶芝的历史观诗化了，或说是符合悲剧中,诗意想象的规律了，也可以说，神秘主义了。

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It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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Regardless of the degree to which this version is fact or myth, we still feel good to be perceived in this positive light.

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