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单词 legend
释义
legend
noun
uk
/ˈledʒ.ənd/us
/ˈledʒ.ənd/

legendnoun(STORY)

B2[CorU]
a veryoldstoryor set ofstoriesfromancienttimes, or thestories, not alwaystrue, thatpeopletellabout afamouseventorperson:
传说，传奇故事；民间故事
Thedancewasbasedon severalHindulegends.这个舞蹈是根据几个印度传说创作的。
She is writing athesisonIrishlegend andmythology.她正在写一篇关于爱尔兰民间故事和神话的论文。
Legendhas it(=peoplesay)that he alwaysworehisbootsinbed.传说他总是穿着靴子上床。
Thismatchwill go intotennislegend(= it will always beremembered).这场比赛将成为网坛传奇。
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epicnoun
folk tale
myth(ANCIENT STORY)
saga
More examples
  • In thecaseof King Arthur, legend andtruthare ofteninextricable.
  • Herappetiteforshoppingbecamethestuffof legend.
  • Their legends werepassedfromgenerationtogeneration.
  • HecollectsNorselegends.
  • Theoperaisbasedon an Icelandic legend.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Accounts and stories
  • anecdote
  • another
  • anti-narrative
  • be another storyidiom
  • bodice-ripper
  • brushstroke
  • cautionary tale
  • commentary
  • legendary
  • lore
  • misdescription
  • multi-stranded
  • myth
  • rundown
  • running commentaryphrase
  • scenario
  • shaggy-dog story
  • short story
  • strand
  • writesomethingup
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legendnoun(PERSON)

C1[C]
someone veryfamousandadmired, usually because oftheirabilityin aparticulararea:
传奇人物
Jazzlegend Ella Fitzgeraldoncesangin thisbar.爵士乐坛传奇人物埃拉‧菲茨杰拉德曾经在这个酒吧唱过歌。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
someone famous
  • celebrityThe magazine is all about the lives of celebrities.
  • celebWhich celeb recently spent $60,000 on an engagement ring?
  • slebUKShe was last spotted interviewing a minor sleb on the red carpet.
  • starHer ambition was always to become a movie star.
  • superstarRock superstar Elton John grew up working class in England.
  • legendHe became a legend in his own lifetime.
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More examples
  • She was a legend on Broadway.
  • Miles Davis was ajazzlegend.
  • He was a legend amongactors.
  • Singing legend Shirley Basseyperformedhere.
  • He was a legend in his ownlifetime.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Famous people
  • Archimedes
  • Aristotle
  • big name
  • boldface
  • boldfaced
  • celebrity
  • glitterati
  • Hippocrates
  • household name
  • immortal
  • it girl
  • Julius Caesar
  • luminary
  • notable
  • personage
  • personality
  • public figure
  • rising star
  • star
  • superstar
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legendnoun(EXPLANATION)

[C]formal
the words written on or next to apicture,map,coin, etc. thatexplainwhat it is about or what thesymbolson itmean
（对图画、地图、硬币等的）说明，图例
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Pieces of writing
  • acrostic
  • annotation
  • biographic
  • blog post
  • Chyron
  • creative writing
  • cutting
  • fair
  • inscription
  • lament
  • microblog
  • mistranscription
  • multi-line
  • palimpsest
  • para
  • postscript
  • preamble
  • scribble
  • script
  • self-portrait
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Idiom

be a legend inyourown lifetime
(Definition oflegendfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

legend| American Dictionary

legend
noun
us
/ˈledʒ·ənd/

legendnoun(STORY)

[C/U]literature
anoldstoryor set ofstoriesfromancienttimes, or thestoriesthatpeopletellabout afamouseventorperson:
[U]Cajunlegendsuggeststhatwhitealligatorsare asymbolofprosperity.

legendnoun(FAME)

[C]
someone who is veryfamousandadmired, usually because of anabilityin aparticulararea:
Louis Armstrong is ajazzlegend.

legendnoun(EXPLANATION)

[C]
the words written on or next to apicture,map,coin, etc., thatexplainwhat it is about or what thesymbolson itmean
(Definition oflegendfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflegend

legend
That raises the question of why thelegendarose in the first place.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The earliest years of an artist's life are always the most difficult to trace with accuracy, being the most heavily encrusted withlegend.
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Here legends were believed and the kids did what they could with vodka and beer.
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This usually leaves the remaining swans swimming innocently and mutely in the early dawn light of a new era, leaving only a tragiclegendbehind.
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The text is complemented with clear and informative figs and well written legends.
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Medievalists would argue that ethnic identities are constructed primarily through the invention of legends of common descent, often articulated in contexts of political conflict.
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Arguably all societies are based on myths and legends in religious, political, and ethnic realms.
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The numbers of spatial grids used in each region are tabulated in thelegendof figure 2.
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Excessive lettering should be avoided on the figure and should be inserted in thelegend.
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Inversely, iconic representations do not always need alegendas the relations between sound and graphical forms are much more intuitive.
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The dominant narrative told the story of kingdoms rising and falling and was based on fragments of classical texts and coin legends.
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Surely there is both a historical example and a cautionary tale here, which the legends meant to convey.
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Legend: highlighted rows - structures for which the qualitative and quantitative curvature judgements do not match.
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The energies quoted in thelegendare those of the mean kinetic energy per nucleon of the ions.
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This does not mean that the sagas were static, fossilised legends from a medieval past.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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