old wives' tale
英 [əuld waivz teil] 美 [old waɪvz tel]

n.

无稽之谈，愚蠢的故事；

变形

复数：old wives' tales

英英释义

old wives' tale

• n.a bit of lore passed on by word of mouth

权威例句

Old Wives' Tale
Old wives' tale
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Old wives' tales and the Coriolis Effect.
Commentaries on viewpoint: the curious case of anabolic resistance: old wives' tales or new fables?
Immunopathogenesis of primary biliary cirrhosis: an old wives' tale
Macroeconomic Forecasting: Debunking a Few Old Wives' Tales
Old wives' tales: the gossip hypothesis and the reliability of cheap signals
Are 'old wives' tales' justified
“Is Cleanliness Next to Godliness? Dispelling Old Wives' Tales: Failure to Replicate Zhong and Liljenquist (2006)
Disorders of sodium balance: Hypothyroidism and hyponatraemia: an old wives' tale?
Testing old wives' tales in Palaeoethnobotany: A comparison of bulk and scatter sampling schemes from Pancán, Peru
The behavioral implications of some old wives' tales