英语释义

1. traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people
The coyote appears in much of Native American folklore. Paul Bunyan is a figure from folklore.

2. a branch of knowledge that deals with folklore
a specialist in folklore

3. an often unsupported notion, story, or saying that is widely circulated
the folklore about the health risks of computers

4. traditional customs, beliefs, stories, and sayings

5. ideas or stories that are not true but that many people have heard or read

英汉例句

• i am a folklorist and humanist, not a copyright lawyer.

  我是一个民俗和人道主义者，而不是一个版权律师。

• zhong jingwen is a famous folklorist and folk artist in china.

  钟敬文先生是我国着名的民俗学家、民间文艺学家。

• american folklorist alan lomax suggested that 「shenandoah」 was a sea-shanty and that its 「composers」 quite possibly were french-canadian voyageurs .

  美国民俗学者阿兰洛马克斯认为，「雪兰」是海简陋，它的「作曲家」很可能是法国和加拿大。

• the anthropologist and folklorist had paid a good deal of attention to extraordinary influence of geographical environment and humane landscape on the living conditions of the crowd.

  地理环境和人文景观对人群的生存状态的特异影响或宗教文化的现象研究，早被人类学家和民俗学家关注。

• 「el dorado shifted geographical locations until finally it simply meant a source of untold riches somewhere in the americas, 」 says jim griffith, a folklorist in tucson, arizona.

  「黄金国的地理位置不断变化，直到最后它仅仅意味着位于美洲某个地方的无限财源，」亚利桑那州图森的民俗学者jimgriffith说道。

• texas writer and folklorist j. frank dobie finds inspiration in those things that make him feel big: his belief in evolution, the beauty of nature, and a drive to push the status quo.

  德克萨斯州民俗学者詹姆斯?弗兰克?多比发现让他变得强大的灵感：自然的美，一种推动现状的动力…

• by the 1680s, british folklorist john aubrey5 reported that 「still in many places... they make fires on the hills: but the civil warres6 have put all these rites or customs quite out of fashion7.」

  17世纪80年代，英国民俗学者约翰·奥布里曾经报道：「还是有许多地方……人们在山上燃点篝火：但是内战使所有这些仪式或习俗基本上不再流行了。」

相似词

legend(Legend)人名；(西)莱亨德；(英)莱金德

legendry传说集；传奇

lore(Lore)人名；(意)洛雷；(英)洛尔

myth神话；虚构的人，虚构的事

mythology神话；神话学；神话集

mythos神话；主题

tradition惯例，传统；传说