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v.according to legend; tradition has it that ...; legend has it that ...
相传这里是穆桂英的点将台。
According to legend, this place used to be where Mu Guiying, a female general, summoned her officers and assigned them tasks.
相传此处是当年孔明祭风处。
According to legend, this is where Kong Ming supplicated the wind.
相传这件事发生在几百年前。
Tradition has it that the event took place hundreds of years ago.
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v.hand down or pass on from one to another
这些故事代代相传。
The stories have been handed down from generation to generation.
这是口授的传统,口耳相传。
It was an oral tradition principally, from ear to ear-mouth to mouth.
成为海员是他家世代相传的职业。
Following the sea is the tradition of his family.