神话:
1. fairy tale
2. myth
3. mythology
4. mythos
5. mythus
6. fable
Examples:
1. 罗马神话中有许多关于仙女的故事。
There are many stories about the nymphs in Roman fairy tales.
2. 任何与上古神话传说有关的东西都会使我着迷。
Anything to do with old myths and legends fascinates me.
3. 这是个关于国王的神话。
It is a mythology about the king.
4. 戴安娜在希腊罗马神话中是狩猎女神。
Diana is the goddess of hunting in Greek and Latin mythology.
5. 这本书是原始民族神话集。
The book is about the mythologies of primitive races.
6. 在希腊和罗马神话中，森林之神是半人半羊的样子。
A satyr is half man and half goat in Greek and Roman mythology.
7. 我对希腊罗马神话非常感兴趣。
I am very interested in Greek and Roman mythology.
如何用英语讲一个神话故事？
1、女娲补天
英文：
It?is?said?that?there?was?no?man?when?the?sky?andthe?earth?were?separated?by?Pangu.?It?was?Nuwawho?made?human?beings?after?her?own?model?withyellow?clay.From?then?on,?man?began?to?live?in?peace?andhappiness?on?the?earth.
nexpectedly,?one?year,?the?fourpillars?supportingthe?heaven?suddenly?collapsed?and?the?earthcracked.?A?great?fire?raged；?torrential?water?flooded?all?the?lands;fierce?animals?preyed?on?men.?ThenNuwa?melted?fivecolored?stones,?using?them?to?mend?the?cracks?in?the?sky.
To?replace?the?broken?pillars,?she?cut?off?the?four?legs?of?a?huge?turtle?and?used?them?tosupport?the?fallensky.Thus?the?sky?was?patched?up,?its?four?corners?were?lifted,?the?flood?was?tamed,?harmful?animalswere?killed,?and?the?innocent?people?were?able?to?restore?their?happy?lives.
中文：
盘古开天辟地后，世上本没有人，是女蜗按照自己的样子用黄 泥塑出了人类。此后，人们便开始在大地上幸福的生活着。天有不测风云，一年， 忽然天崩地裂，大火肆虐，洪水滔天,野兽横行伤人。
女蜗把五彩石融化，再用这些熔化了的液体把天上的洞补好。然后，她又将一只万年巨龟的四足斩下，把它们用作擎天柱，支撑住了天地的四方。
就这样，天补好了，四个角撑住了，洪水被驯服， 猛兽被消灭，人类的生活又恢复到往日的幸福祥
和之中。
2、玉兔捣药
英文：
Legend has it that there are three gods into three of the elderly poor, to foxes, monkeys, rabbits for food, the fox and the monkey had food to relief, only rabbit be at a loss what to do. Then the rabbit said: "you eat my flesh!" it into the fire, will he cooked, fairy touched, put the rabbit to the palace of the moon, the moon. Company E, and ramming ever-young medicine.
中文：
相传有三位神仙变成三个可怜的老人，向狐狸、猴子、兔子求食，狐狸与猴子都有食物可以济助，唯有兔子束手无策。后来兔子说：“你们吃我的肉吧!”就跃入烈火中，将自己烧熟，神仙大受感动，把兔子送到月宫内，成了玉兔。陪伴嫦娥,并捣制长生不老药。
3、精卫填海
英文：
once upon a time, Yan has a small daughter, Her name is baby girl, he loved his little daughter, Yan often play with the girls, but the terrible thing happened, girls playing in the sea, unfortunately, dead water, and then She turned into a bird, named Jingwei, Yan sad day Jade Bird watching it, and finally decided to make this Jingwei filled the sea, so that he no longer claimed more lives!
中文：
从前，有1个女孩叫做精卫，她很爱自己的父亲炎帝，他们经常在一起玩，每天都很开心。有一天，精卫去划船，不小心掉进了海里，后来她变成了1只鸟。她经常去看她的父亲，她的父亲为此很伤心。后来精卫决定用石子把那个海填起来。
4、夸父追日
英文：
Kua Fu tried his best to chase the sun. When he arrived at the place where the sun set, he had to turned around, as he could not bear the thirst, and came to the Yellow River and the Wei River.
In one breath, he?quaffed?up all the water in both rivers. Though he drank up two rivers, he still felt thirsty, and he decided to go to the large lake in the north for a good drink. On the way to the north, Kua Fu eventually died of thirst.
The walking stick thrown down by him, being?nurtured?by the?nourishment?converted from his dead body, unexpectedly bloomed and?fructified, and it grew into peach woods, which stretched for thousands of miles.
中文：
夸父竭尽全力追赶太阳。当他追赶太阳降落的地方时， 由于忍受不了干渴，只好掉转头，回到黄河、渭河所在的地方，一口气便将这两条河里的水喝得精光。
虽然喝光了两条大河，但夸父还是感到不解渴,又打算到北方的大湖里去痛饮一番。北去的途中，夸父终因干渴而死。
扔下的手杖，被他的尸体所化成的养料滋润，竟然开花结果，长成一片连绵千里的桃林。
5、牛郎织女
英文：
On the east bank of the heavenly river lived a girl weaver, daughter of the emperor of heaven. She worked hard year in and year out, weaving colorful clothes for gods and goddesses.
Later?she sneakly married?the cowherd who is only a mortal and raised two children with him. However,?goddess?found the fact that she concealed. Greatly outraged, the goddess forced the girl back across the river and allowed her to join her husband only once a year.
On the seventh day of each autumn, magpies would suddenly become bald-headed for no obvious reasons at all. According to legend, that day the cowherd and the weaver met on the east bank of the river, and magpies were made to form a bridge for them. And for this reason the down on their heads was worn out?from book of plants and animals.
中文：
天河东岸住着一个女孩，她是天帝的女儿。她年复一年地辛勤工作，为众神和女神编织丰富多彩的衣服。
后来，她偷偷嫁给了一个只是凡人的牛郎，并和他一起抚养了两个孩子。然而，女神发现了她隐藏的事实。女神非常愤怒，她强迫女孩过河，让她一年只能和丈夫团聚一次。
每年秋天的第七天，喜鹊突然变得秃顶，完全没有明显的原因。传说那天牛郎和织女在河的东岸相遇，喜鹊被做成了一座桥。正因为如此，他们的头上的毛从植物和动物的书上磨损了。
参考资料：
Add Feetx0dOne day three men got a bottle of wine. But the wine was not enough for them three and each of them wanted to drink the wine alone. Then they all agreed that they each would draw a snake on the ground and the one who first finished drawing would be given the wine. So they began to draw on the ground with sticks.x0dIt was not long before one of the three finished drawing his snake. He found the other two were still busy with their drawings."How slow you are ! "said he, "I can even add feet to my snake before you finish yours."x0dHe put down the bottle and began to add feet to his snake. But before he finished, another man took hold of the bottle and said, "I've finished. Snakes have no feet, so yours is not a snake."With these words he drank up the wine.x0dx0d添足x0d从前，有3个人得到一壶酒，但酒不够这3个人喝，而且他们每个人都想独自占有。他们决定在地上画蛇，先画好的人就喝这壶酒。于是他们就开始在地上用木棍画。x0d不一会儿，其中一个人先画好了，他发现另两人还未画完，就说：“你们真慢啊!在你们画完之前，我还能给蛇添上脚呢!”于是，他放下酒壶，开始给蛇添足。但脚未画完，另一人拿起酒壶说，“我已把蛇画好了，蛇本来没有脚，你怎能给它添脚呢?”说着，他把酒一饮而尽。x0dx0dThe Trees and the Axx0donce upon a time, a man came into a forest. He said to the trees, "Will you give me a piece of hard wood.? "The tree said, "Yes,we'll give you a good piece of hard wood."He was very glad to get a good piece of wood. He hurried home with it. At once he made a new handle of his ax. Then he went to the forest again and began to cut down all the best trees in the forest. The trees were very sad. They said to one another, "We suffer for our own foolishness."x0dx0d树与斧头x0d从前有一个人进入了森林。 他对树说：“您愿意给我一块硬木头吗?”树说：“行，我将给你一块价值较好的硬木头。”他非常高兴地得到了一块好木头。 他赶紧把它带到家里，立即做了一把新斧头。 然后他又去森林里砍最好的树。 树感到非常悲伤，他们互相说道：“我们自作自受。”
