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Mythical Stories Beast Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词   [Usu Adj N

英语单词 mythical
英美音标 英 ['mɪθɪkl] 美 ['mɪθɪkl]
中文释义 adj.神话的;虚构的;杜撰出来的
英语例句 (1) Their wealth is merely mythical.
(2) The artefact, made of gold, symbolises a mythical octopus with eight tentacles and a stylised human head displaying cat-like features.
中文例句 (1) 他们的财富完全是虚构的。
(2) 这件由纯金制成的手工艺品绘有一只虚构的具有八只触角的章鱼,以及一个当地常见的看上去类似于猫的人头图案。
vocabulary简明 Mythical means from myth, fables, or other traditional stories. A mythical story has no basis in historical events. Sometimes someone whose deeds far outshine others is referred to as mythical.
vocabulary扩展 There are a number of mythical animals that inhabit stories from around the globe. A white horse with a horn protruding from its forehead, the unicorn, is a mythical beast that is very popular worldwide. Much of Western art takes mythical stories, gods, goddesses, or other spirit creatures as subject matter.
柯林斯解释
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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]神话的;只存在于神话中的 Something or someone that is mythical exists only in myths and is therefore imaginary.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • ...the Hydra, the mythical beast that had seven or more heads.

    许德拉,神话里有7个或更多脑袋的怪兽

  • ...traditional stories woven around a pantheon of gods and mythical figures.

    围绕万神庙里的众神和其他神话人物而展开的传统故事

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[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]虚构的;杜撰的 If you describe something as mythical, you mean that it is untrue or does not exist.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • ...the American West, not the mythical, romanticized West of cowboys and gunslingers, but the real West.

    美国西部,不是虚构的、充满浪漫色彩的有牛仔和枪手的美国西部,而是真正的美国西部

  • ...trying to preserve a mythical sense of nationhood.

    试图保留一种虚构的民族感

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