some legends are apocryphal tales that merely add color to a famous figure.
有一些故事是伪造的,其目的不过是为了给历史人物增添一些传奇色彩。
his hopes rested, in part, on an article he read somewhere, which very well might be apocryphal but nevertheless allowed him to dream.
他的这种感觉部分来自于一篇他在某个地方看到的一篇文章,也不知道是谁写的,但是尽管如此至少给了他梦想的希望。
those apocryphal tales about the hypertoxic blowfish prized by japanese gastronomes?
日本美食家们总是对那些不可信的,关于河豚有剧毒的传说津津乐道?
like the apocryphal sign at a tea-party rally last year, warning government to keep its 「hands off my medicare」, they are refusing to confront reality.
去年茶党举行集会,警告政府「缩回伸向医疗保险的黑手」,这些都是表面文章,茶党拒绝面对现实问题。
i heard an apocryphal story about a japanese firm that installed a turbine which needed electric power to keep it turning to save the face of its would-be-green owners.
我听说过一个杜撰的故事,一个日本公司安装了一台涡轮机,但却需要用电力来保持它运转来保护其「环保」的面子。
it is perhaps that cited as 「abraham」 in early lists of apocryphal works, and some passages in early christian writers may indicate their knowledge of such a work.
它也许是引为「亚伯拉罕」,在早期的名单猜测工程,以及一些段落,在早期基督教作家可以表明自己的知识这样的工作。
urban legend is a form of modern folklore consisting of apocryphal stories believed by their tellers to be true.
都市流言是现代民间传说的一种,那些虚假故事被它们的讲述者演绎得可以以假乱真。
it's considered new testament apocryphal writings.
它被认为是新约次经。
biographers attempting to account for this period have reported many apocryphal stories.
传记作家试图说明他这段时期的经历,描述了很多虚构的故事。
according to one possibly apocryphal story, the soldiers under his command in east timor lost patience as they waited for his orders to attack a rebel-held hill, and took it without him.
据谣传,他在东帝汶岛领导时,士兵因为等不及他的命令,在收到下令之前就自行攻击了叛乱者占据的山丘。
the apocryphal answer is: 「indeed, m’lud, in barnsley they speak of little else.」
众所周知的答案是:「确实是的,法官大人,巴恩斯利(位于约克郡南)的人们更愿意谈论别的什么事情。」
one apocryphal tale centred on indian workers who had been given the job of keying the results of the latest british census into a database.
这里有个道听途说的故事,主人公是位印度职员,他需要将最近一次英国人口普查的统计结果输入电脑数据库。
proponents of the comma insist that without it, you might be prone to absurdities such as the apocryphal
支持使用牛津逗号的人坚持认为,如果没有牛津逗号,就有可能杜撰出如下荒谬的句子来
i am reminded of the apocryphal story of someone complaining about the invention of writing because it would cause us to stop remembering things.
(由此)我想到了一则杜撰的故事,所谓有人认为写作会令人怠惰于记忆。 尽管如此,结果证明,写作还是变得相当重要。
seafarers have long returned with tales — often dismissed as apocryphal — of the ocean abruptly reaching up and snatching at anything in its path.
长期以来,海员归来时,都会带来海洋骤然出现,所到之处片甲不留的故事---然而经常被当作是虚构的不为人相信。
apocryphal information abounds, blurring the boundary between truth and rumor.
未经证实的信息比比皆是,模糊了真相和谣言的边界。