folklore
folklore 英 [ˈfəʊklɔ:(r)] 美 [ˈfoʊklɔ(r)]
n. 民俗学；民间传说；民间风俗
名词复数:folklores
- Stories, customs, and beliefs that are passed from one generation to the next are called folklore. According to folklore, you shouldn't take rocks from the volcanoes in Hawaii because Pele, the volcano goddess, will be angry and curse you.
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- n. 民俗学；民间传说；民间风俗
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1. I am interested in anything pertaining to folklore.
属于民间文学的任何东西我都感兴趣。
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2. Like the notion of evil itself, they have ancient origins and appear in folklore and literature across the world.
像邪恶本身的概念，他们历史悠久，并且在世界上所有民间传说和文艺作品中都有出现。
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3. Today, my foremost concern should be to research the folklore of my home country so that I can finish the footnote to my report.
今天，我最主要关心的应该是研究祖国的民间传说，那样我就可以完成我的报告的脚注了。
- folklore (n.) "traditional beliefs and customs of the common people," 1846, coined by antiquarian William J. Thoms (1803-1885) as an Anglo-Saxonism (replacing popular antiquities) in imitation of German compounds in Volk- and first published in the "Athenaeum" of Aug. 22, 1846; see folk + lore. Old English folclar meant "homily."
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