“吸烟致癌说”在流传了多年之后，人们才找到这一关系的证据。

It was rumored that smoking caused cancer for years before the evidence was found to prove a connection.

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“这是一封很简短的信，”他回忆说，“只有短短的几行字，信里面表示最近有很多关于我和秘书间的绯闻在流传，我立刻明白这是一个对我不服从上级命令的书面警告。”

Just a couple of lines. It indicated there had been rumors of an affair between me and the terminal secretary and that this was a written warning for insubordination.

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在互联网上广泛流传后，它获得了某种程度的崇拜。

It gained something of a cult after it was widely circulated on the Internet.

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Some of them are unique to one source, some are not, but ultimately the claim is that these have all been merged, and have left us then with an overall total of ten. This may in fact be true.

有些瘟疫只有一个出处，有些则不是,最重要的是，它们被混在一起,流传下来的，就有了十次瘟疫，也许真的有。

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And so tradition just said, "Well if there are three gifts,there must be three kings."

所以传说在流传过程中，人们认为，“有三样礼物，那必定有三位国王“

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The patriarchs, it's maintained, were semi-nomads. They lived in tents.

族长们，一直以来都流传说，曾是半游牧民族，住在帐篷里。

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