告诉你一个广为流传的趣闻。

Here's a pop factoid for you.

《牛津词典》

那个流传的笑话说那支乐队从未演奏过。

The running gag is that the band never gets to play.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我很快便知道了小镇上流传的种种阴谋与丑闻。

I soon learnt about all the intrigues and scandals that went on in the little town.

《牛津词典》

A long process of transmission, interweaving, literary embellishment has gone into the creation of this account in Exodus 14 and 15.

经过长期的流传，混杂以及润色,就有了《出埃及记》14和15中的故事。

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The music for the mask, which still exists at least, the melody still exists, was written by Henry Lawes, the most important musician working in England.

现在流传下来了的《面具》的音乐，亨利劳斯写的旋律依然存世，亨利是英国最伟大的作曲家。

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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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