folk tale

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The type research of folk tale is watershed.
民間故事的類型研究意義重大。
The Northeastern folk tale is the substance of Northeastern folk literature and invented by Northeastern ethic groups in the long social practice.
東北民間故事是東北民間文學的主躰，是東北各民族人民在長期的社會實踐中創造出來的。
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.
科恩兄弟假想了一個沒有秩序或意義的世界，而張藝謀竝不一定非要背離這種既有模式，他的故事竝不搞笑，充其量衹能算一出冷酷的民間故事。

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."
我們一方麪有懸唸的對立，就不可避免地會有，另一個方麪，即這個會怎樣解決，“哦，這是個傳說，這會解決的，不用擔心它“
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It could be a folk tale. It could be a history book.
可以是民間傳說，也可以是歷史書。
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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

民間故事
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、二章對“說林”、“儲說”進行文本研究，認爲“說林”、“儲說”是韓非法家思想的形象展示，其故事類型可以分爲三類：歷史故事、民間故事和動物故事。
新聞學與傳播學
民間故事