The myth travelled far and wide.

这个诞说法流传甚广。

Now let's take this opportunity to bust a myth.

现在让我们借此机打破一个诞说法。

I hate this myth so much, it annoys me all the time.

我非常讨厌这个诞说法，它一直让我烦恼。

The faintly absurd happenstance of the pits felt to me like a classic Essex story.

那些稍显诞坑洞事件对我来说宛如一个典型埃塞克斯故事。

Gregor MacGregor's background was interesting enough even without his tall tales.

即便忽略掉麦格雷格尔自己讲那些诞故事，他背景也十有趣。

He told a funny story to the king and queen when they came to see the princess.

当国王和王后来见公主时他编了一个诞故事。

We did not think it hypocritical to draw over our vagaries the curtain of a decent silence.

我们对自己一些诞不经行为遮上一层保持体面缄默，并不认为这是虚伪。

But it's this story about this weird society of the future.

但也是关于未来社诞离奇。

So each week beheld some fresh absurdity.

所以这每周一幕诞剧还在继续上演。

In short, I gave myself up to fantastic comparisons.

简而言之，我沉迷于诞比较。

Buldeo began telling them some wild stories.

布尔迪奥开始给他们讲一些诞故事。

It's no fish story and it's no tall tale.

这不是鱼故事，也不是什么诞不经事。

That's a pretty tall tale from a not too reliable source.

诞故事 不靠谱人。

Each group of workers had its own tall tale hero.

劳作人群中，每个群落都有一个属于自己诞故事英雄。

And so the tall tales, and the drawings, and even the books by A-No.

因此，诞故事、图画，甚至是 A-No 书籍。

Having executed its grotesque purpose the wind sank to comparative mildness.

在完成了它诞目之后， 风渐渐平静下来。

To him it seemed as wild a tale as it may now seem to you.

在他看来，这就像一个诞故事， 就像现在在你看来一样。

I want to assure you that such an absurd reaction will never, ever happen again.

我想向你保证，那种诞行为再也不发生了。

Present-day warfare, genocide, and degradation of the environment paint a different picture from this myth.

当今战争、种族灭绝和环境恶化描绘了与这种诞说法不同画面。

Complex nations were grotesquely simplified for the voters back home and the boys sent to fight abroad.

诞可笑是，对国内选民和被派到国外士兵来说，这些复杂国家被简化了。