urban legend

基本解释

Hence, no twoversions of an urban legend are ever exactly alike; there can be asmany variants as there are tellers of the tale.
所以没有完全相同意义的都市传奇，不同的人讲述的都市传奇往往有不通的变化。
While that was an urban legend, cryonic science is a reality, currently only legal to perform on those who've been pronounced dead.
虽然这是一个都市传奇，但是人体冷冻科学是一个事实，目前法律只允许执行在那些已经被宣告死亡的人上。
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“如果大学里有室友自杀，则同寝室的人本学期不会挂科”的谣传就被很多人认为是一个都市传奇。

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.