urban legend

基本解釋

Hence, no twoversions of an urban legend are ever exactly alike; there can be asmany variants as there are tellers of the tale.
所以沒有完全相同意義的都市傳奇，不同的人講述的都市傳奇往往有不通的變化。
While that was an urban legend, cryonic science is a reality, currently only legal to perform on those who've been pronounced dead.
雖然這是一個都市傳奇，但是人體冷凍科學是一個事實，目前法律只允許執(zhí)行在那些已經(jīng)被宣告死亡的人上。
For example, the erroneous belief that you will automatically pass all of your college courses in a semester if your roommate kills himself is generally considered to be an urban legend.
比如“如果大學里有室友自殺，則同寢室的人本學期不會掛科”的謠傳就被很多人認為是一個都市傳奇。

Lastly, there are Chinese whispers , which make the Internet such a perfect vehicle for urban legend.
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Vote rigging by entrenched political machines in cities like Chicago or Philadelphia is more than urban legend.
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An urban myth is a strange or surprising story which many people believe, but which is not actually true.