| 单词 | animal myth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanimal myth animal myth n. (a) (esp. in folklore) a myth or fable about an animal, or a creature having the (partial) form of an animal; (b) a popular (but usually erroneous) belief about the habits or behaviour of an animal or animals. ΚΠ 1873 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 1872 73 Animal myths are numerous [amongst the Amazonian Indians], and bear a very striking resemblance to the zoölogical myths of the Old World. 1886 Times 2 Nov. 4 While we must be excused from accepting as gospel all that is written concerning the great animal myths, it is no doubt true that..many stories once regarded as fabulous are now accepted by the best authorities as genuine. 1903 Amer. Anthropologist 5 338 In the animal myths the most prominent figure is the rabbit,..always as a trickster and deceiver. 1955 Times 12 July 10 (heading) Animal myth and libel. A miscellany of curious beliefs about British creatures. 1987 Smithsonian (Nexis) 1 Apr. 159 As observation and the scientific method increasingly displaced knowledge-by-faith, many animal myths were discredited. 2005 D. F. Passmann & H. J. Real in H. J. Real & P. E. Firchow Perennial Satirist i. 40 It is not beauteous and graceful mermaids but repulsively monstrous, cannibalistic mermen who are recorded in the animal myths of the natives. < as lemmas |
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