Legend

(noun.) a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.

手打:波莱特

• This is most complimentary to the virtue of Prince Bladud's tears, and strongly corroborative of the veracity of this legend. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You know the legend of this house and garden? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He was the son of---- Poor but honest parents--that is all right--never mind the particulars --go on with the legend. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There was no record or legend of any prisoner with those initials, and many fruitless guesses were made what the name could have been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It is monstrous--as if you had had a vision of Hades in your childhood, like the boy in the legend. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Don't --now don't inflict that most in-FERNAL old legend on me anymore today! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Hence, I inferred, arose the legend of the Banshee. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Upon the last lid's polished field-- Legend now both fair and true A gallant knight bears on his shield, Amy in letters gold and blue. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who _is not_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• A second legend bears him to the sea-shore. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• According to the legend, this great discovery elicited extravagant demonstrations of joy. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The legend of Theseus tells of such a raid. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Old Mrs. Mingott's foreign daughters had become a legend. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• There is a legend of a peasant who lived near Paris through the whole Napoleonic era without ever having heard of the name of Bonaparte. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It was veiled by the curtain of a Sumerian legend. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Then there are Latin legends and rhymes at the bottom of each page. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Dejah Thoris related many interesting facts and legends concerning this lost race of noble and kindly people. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• But the truth of Lister, Modesto, and El Campesino was much better than the lies and legends. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Legends gather about the men who wrote it: those legends are absorbed by us almost with our mothers' milk. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• These statements are all well authenticated in many legends that are among the most trustworthy legends the good old Catholic monks preserve. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His Saturday half-holiday he spent in the wood with his book of fairy legends, and that other unwritten book of his imagination. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I had heard vague rumours, little more than legends they were, during my former life on Mars; but never had I seen them, nor talked with one who had. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• In fact, his practical contrivances won such repute that it is not easy to separate the historical facts from the legends that enshroud his name. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• One knew nothing, except for a few monstrous legends, of the rest of the world in which one lived. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Whenever that strain is found in any race, there are to be found also thoughts and legends of sacrificial murders. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But, as we have already intimated, Yuan Chwang's account of Indian realities is swamped by his accumulation of legends and pious inventions. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This book contained legends of the saints. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The legends of the Sunday Schools do him great injustice; they give one the impression that he was poor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

录入:库尔特