| 单词 | legend |
| 释义 | legend (once / 194 pages) 1n 2n A legend is a larger-than-life story that gets passed down from one generation to the next — like the legends of Beowulf, Robin Hood, or even Big Foot. Legend comes from the Latin legere, "to read." The Latin word was originally limited to written stories, but in English, legend lost that limitation. Often a legend lives on in the stories that people tell each other. A person can be a legend too. Anne Frank is a legend for keeping a diary of hidden life in war time, and a less famous person, like a long-serving local teacher, can be a legend to neighborhood kids. WORD FAMILYlegend: legendary, legends+/legendary: legendarily USAGE EXAMPLESThe intertwining of madness and genius remains an essential part of his posthumous legend, and Lowell himself saw the two as related. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The sheer range of musical expression is astonishing: pastoral reveries, woodland scenes, romantic arias, heroic dramas, historical legends and visions of spiritual strife. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Tales from the stage about two Hollywood legends. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 n a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper fable Arthurian legend the legend of King Arthur and his court at Camelot story a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events n brief description accompanying an illustration Syn|Hyper caption title a general or descriptive heading for a section of a written work |
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