folk tale

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The type research of folk tale is watershed.
民间故事的类型研究意义重大。
The Northeastern folk tale is the substance of Northeastern folk literature and invented by Northeastern ethic groups in the long social practice.
东北民间故事是东北民间文学的主体，是东北各民族人民在长期的社会实践中创造出来的。
The Coens posit a universe without order or meaning, and while Mr. Zhang does not necessarily quarrel with this view, he treats it less as a cosmic joke than as a grim folk tale.
科恩兄弟假想了一个没有秩序或意义的世界，而张艺谋并不一定非要背离这种既有模式，他的故事并不搞笑，充其量只能算一出冷酷的民间故事。

We have the dialectic of suspense on the one hand, how will this be resolved, and inevitability on the other, "Oh, it's a folk tale, it'll be resolved, don't worry about it."
我们一方面有悬念的对立，就不可避免地会有，另一个方面，即这个会怎样解决，“哦，这是个传说，这会解决的，不用担心它“
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It could be a folk tale. It could be a history book.
可以是民间传说，也可以是历史书。
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Even, comparable to the folk tale of Victorians putting trousers on pianos so no one could see the legs.
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a story that parents have passed on to their children through speech over many years

a tale or legend originating among a people and typically becoming part of an oral tradition

民间故事
Chapter one and chapter two studies the text of Shuolin and Chushuo. The stories of Shuolin and Chushuo displays Hanfei's legist thought imaginably; the stories type may divide into three kinds: historical story, folk tale and animal story.
第一、二章对“说林”、“储说”进行文本研究，认为“说林”、“储说”是韩非法家思想的形象展示，其故事类型可以分为三类：历史故事、民间故事和动物故事。
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