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，是关于英国统治印度代不正当激励。

The one I choose to believe may be apocryphal.

我选择相信那个可能是伪。

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

MAUGHAN: 我不知道。它可能是杜撰, 但是 - 。

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

可以理解一个有趣但可能是杜撰故事是如何产生。

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

这是一个杜撰故事，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.

瞎编吧 -不 是和妈妈曾在那里待过 说是。

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

伪故事是, 当杰克逊听到法院行动, 手驳回了它。

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，比如在耶鲁大学得C一篇论文，这篇论文概述了想法(记不起分数了)。

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

我们家有一个故事， 说我曾祖父是一个火车劫匪，但我认为这个故事可能是杜撰。

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, 亨利·克莱正在家里放松, 儿子冲进来, 让猜猜谁赢得了民主党提名。

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.

我不知道这是否是伪，但我意思是我听过很多次， 例如，中世纪期， 人们喝啤酒而不是水， 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）故事而受到赞誉，该故事讲述了动画师在名为“战棋”视频游戏中所做一段故意不必要工作。

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."

我拍关于玛丽莲电影叫《我与梦露一周》，我相信这是个实故事，也许是杜撰，但那是在她拍《游龙戏凤》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.

们在一个可能是虚构人物内德·路德将军旗帜下联合起来——这就是们被称为“勒德分子”原因——们开始闯入工厂，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.

婚姻不会改变们居住地；们已经能够扩大它范围，把以前属于那个虚构隐形房客楼上房间占为己有，们别无所求。

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，当读到非常喜欢伪经，西拉奇敏锐文字之子会带来愉快微笑，尽管也享受偶尔与伪经作家不同自由。