There is a story, almost certainly apocryphal, about perverse incentives in the era of British rule in India.

有一个故事，几乎可以肯定是杜撰的，是关于英国统治印度时代的不正当激励的。

The one I choose to believe may be apocryphal.

选择相信的那个可能是伪的。

I have no idea. It's probably apocryphal, but —.

MAUGHAN: 不知道。它可能是杜撰的, 是 - 。

It is understandable how an interesting but possibly apocryphal story could have arisen.

可以理解一个有可能是杜撰的故事是如何产生的。

And it's an apocryphal story where an advertising executive makes the picture perfect pitch to a client.

这是一个杜撰的故事，广告主管将图片完美地推销给客户。

Isn't that apocryphal? - No, actually. - Papa and Mama stayed there once and said it was quite true.

瞎编的吧 -不 是真的爸爸和妈妈曾在那里待过 说是真的。

The apocryphal story is that when Jackson heard of the court's action, he dismissed it with a wave of the hand.

伪的故事是, 当杰克逊听到法院的行动时, 他挥手驳回它。

Some of it is apocryphal, such as the story that he got a C at Yale for a paper outlining his idea (he can't recall the grade).

其中一些是杜撰的，比如他在耶鲁大学得C的一篇论文，这篇论文概述他的想法(他记不起分数)。

There is a story in our family that my great - grandfather was a train robber, but I think the story is probably apocryphal.

家有一个故事， 说的曾祖父是一个火车劫匪，认为这个故事可能是杜撰的。

There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Henry Clay was relaxing at his home when his son rushed in and asked him to guess who had won the Democratic nomination.

有一个故事, 也许是杜撰的, 亨利·克莱正在家里放松, 他的儿子冲进来, 让他猜猜谁赢得民主党的提名。

I don't know if this is apocryphal or not, but I mean I've heard many times that, for example, the medieval period, people drank beer instead of water because it was safer.

不知道这是否是伪的，的意思是听过很多次， 例如，中世纪时期， 人喝啤酒而不是水， 因为它更安全。

Jeff Atwood, a computer programmer, is credited with popularising the (possibly apocryphal) story of a piece of deliberately unnecessary work that an animator did on a video game called " Battle Chess" .

计算机程序员杰夫·阿特伍德 (Jeff Atwood) 因传播（可能是杜撰的）故事而受到赞誉，该故事讲述动画师在名为“战棋”的视频游戏中所做的一段故意不必要的工作。

The film about Marilyn I did was a film called " My Week with Marilyn" and it was, I believe a true story, maybe apocryphal, but it was when she was making " The Prince and the Showgirl."

拍的关于玛丽莲的电影叫《与梦露的一周》，相信这是个真实的故事，也许是杜撰的，那是在她拍《游龙戏凤》的时候。

They band together under the banner of a probably apocryphal figure named General Ned Ludd - that's how they become known as the Luddites - and they start breaking into factories, destroying the looms with sledgehammers.

他在一个可能是虚构人物内德·路德将军的旗帜下联合起来——这就是他被称为“勒德分子”的原因——他开始闯入工厂，用大锤摧毁织机。

The marriage was to make no change in their place of residence; they had been able to extend it, by taking to themselves the upper rooms formerly belonging to the apocryphal invisible lodger, and they desired nothing more.

婚姻不会改变他的居住地；他已经能够扩大它的范围，把以前属于那个虚构的隐形房客的楼上房间占为己有，他别无所求。

And on some mornings, when he read in the Apocrypha, of which he was very fond, the son of Sirach's keen-edged words would bring a delighted smile, though he also enjoyed the freedom of occasionally differing from an Apocryphal writer.

在某些早晨，当他读到他非常喜欢的伪经时，西拉奇敏锐的文字之子会带来愉快的微笑，尽管他也享受偶尔与伪经作家不同的自由。