engelska-franska översättning av myth

mythe
Comme chacun le sait, cela est un mythe. As everyone knows, this is a myth. Ce débat est celui du mythe contre la réalité. This debate is myth against reality. Il s'agissait là d'un dessein associé à un mythe. It was a plan associated with a myth.

A traditional story which embodies a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; a sacred narrative regarding a god, a hero, the origin of the world or of a people, etc
A commonly-held but false belief, a common misconception; a fictitious or imaginary person or thing; a popular conception about a real person or event which exaggerates or idealizes reality
A person or thing held in excessive or quasi-religious awe or admiration based on popular legend
A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable

Myth was the product of mans emotion and imagination, acted upon by his surroundings. (E. Clodd, Myths & Dreams (1885), 7, cited after OED
Scientists debunk the myth that gum stays in the human stomach for seven years.
Father Flanagan was legendary, his institution an American myth. (Tucson (Arizona) Citizen, 20 September 1979, 5A/3, cited after OED

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