folktales

The Thousand and One Nights, or Arabian Nights' Entertainments derives from Persian and Egyptian folktales.

《一千零一夜》或称《阿拉伯之夜》，也由所收集的波斯人和埃及人的民间故事演变而成。

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Alibaba is easy to spell and people everywhere associate that with "Open, Sesame," the command that Ali Baba used to open doors to hidden treasures in One Thousand and One Nights, the book of Middle Eastern folktales.

阿里巴巴的英文拼写非常简单，而且世界各地的人会由此联想到“芝麻开门”——在中东民间故事集《一千零一夜》中“阿里巴巴”是为了藏宝物而用来叫开盗穴大门的咒语。

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He also wrote any number of wonderful late tales that read a bit like folktales, but they are self-assured, vital, unforgettable.

他还写了不少类似民间传说的奇妙故事，但跟传说不一样的是，这些故事充溢着自信和力量，让人过目难忘。

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The reason of the transformation is that the evolvement of folktales is dominated by the culture and system of the society. That is, the Chinese system which is characterized by partible inheritance and the Japanese system which is characterized by primogeniture.

民间故事形态的演变受社会文化制度的制约和支配，故事在传播过程中产生变体的直接原因就是中日不同的家庭财产继承制度，即中国的诸子均分制和日本的长子继承制。

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The ways of people have been recorded in innumerable myths, folktales, novels, poems, plays, and popular or philosophical essays.

人们的风俗习性被记录在无数的神话、民间故事、小说、剧本和通俗短文或哲学随笔中。

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The German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm decided to write folktales.

德国的格林兄弟,雅各布和威廉,决定把民间传说写下来.

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Most folktales eventually move from oral tradition to written form.

大多数的民俗故事最终会从口头传统演变成文字形式.

英汉非文学 - 民俗

A Study of River Snail Goddess Type Korean Folktales

朝鲜族田螺娘型故事初探

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In fact, many ancient August Moon folktales are about a moon maiden.

实际上，古代很多关于八月月圆的故事都跟一位月亮仙子有关。

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