"That was no fairy tale, 'tis true," said old Nanny, "but now it's coming."

“这的确不是一个童话，”接骨木树妈妈说。“可是现在它来了。”

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The old wives' tale that a woman loses one tooth for every child she delivers may, in fact, contain a grain of truth.

女人每生一个孩子就掉一颗牙这种无稽之谈事实上可能包含一点点真理。

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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。

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This hamlet consisted of three houses, the kind that appears in an old tale.

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That was an old wives' tale.

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Next came the collapse of Gescartera, a stockbroking house run by an ambitious financier, he too with well-placed friends: a complex tale of greed, nepotism and fraud that cast a vivid light on Spain's traditional old-boy network in business.

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