| 词汇 | legend |
| 词源 | legend. The Medieval Latin word legenda, from the Latin legere, to read, meant “something to be read,” especially some- thing about the lives of saints. Often these biographies were filled with incredible stories, which led to legenda’s meaning of “unlikely story or myth,” a meaning that was retained when the word passed into English as legend. |
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