Legend



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解释

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• n. 地图里的说明文字或图例
• ［英］ 地图里的说明文字或图例 ( a title, brief description, or caption accompanying an illustration or map)
• ［记］ （记）legend作为""传说""一词人所共知

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: Middle English legende, from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French legende, from Medieval Latin legenda, from Latin, feminine of legendus, gerundive of legere to gather, select, read; akin to Greek legein to gather, say, logos speech, word, reason
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. a story coming down from the past; especially one popularly regarded as historical although not verifiable
  • b. a body of such stories <a place in the legend of the frontier>
  • c. a popular myth of recent origin
  • d. a person or thing that inspires legends
  • e. the subject of a legend <its violence was legend even in its own time — William Broyles Jr.>
• 2.
  • a. an inscription or title on an object (as a coin)
  • b. caption 2b
  • c. an explanatory list of the symbols on a map or chart

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