It's the kind of story that we think of as myth.

这是那种我们认为是杜撰出来的故事。

I don't think you can tell what wound he might have made...

你凭什么告诉我们这些凭空杜撰的事?

People make up these spells and chants in order to feel like they're in control.

人们杜撰这些咒语圣歌不过是为营造一切都在掌控中的幻觉。

But the explanation came many days after the first story they told.

然而，该解释却是在“杜撰劫案”发生多才发表的。

Klaus and I faked the sun and moon curse dating back over a thousand years.

月诅咒是一千多年前我克劳斯杜撰出来的。

Mystified scientists coined the label colony collapse disorder (CCD) to describe what was happening.

困惑的科学家们杜撰衰竭失调的标签以解释所发生的现象。

At the time, I thought most of which was fiction. Like that amazing vampire story.

当时我认为这些都是杜撰的。就像是很赞的吸血鬼小说。

Yeah. Yeah, sure. It's probably just stupid folklore anyways. Forget it.

当然。我理解。反正这些没准也只是民间杜撰的传说而已。当我没问过。

They said the store owner had just invented it to get some publicity for his store.

他们说那个店主不过是杜撰这个消息想以此来给他的店做广告而已。

They had too many kids trying out, and not enough roles, so they had to start making up characters.

因为太多孩子来试镜，角色不够，他们只好杜撰新的角色出来。

And the phrase" Elementary My Dear Watson" was coined by author humorist P.G Wodehouse.

" Elementary My Dear Watson" 这句话是由著名作家P.G Wodehouse杜撰的。

But others get part of a story right, and then add wrong details or leave out important facts.

但有的新闻所述内容是真实的，只是杜撰某些虚假细节或删减重要事实。

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。

You know, biases are the stories we make up about people before we know who they actually are.

偏见是，我们在不解一个人真实的一面时，却杜撰关于他子虚乌有的事。

It is thought that perhaps story-tellers in India first made them up - how long ago nobody knows.

人们认为，也许是印度的说书人首先杜撰这些故事——没人知道这是多久以前的事。

A spokesperson for the European Commission said Pompeo had coined an opinion without knowing how our system works.

一位欧盟委员会的发言人表示，蓬佩奥在对我们系统运作方式毫无解的情况下杜撰一个观点。

I promise I'm not making these names up.

我保证这些名字不是我杜撰的。

I'm not just making that up, they are related.

这不是我杜撰的，它们是相关的。

Women do invent rapes that never happened.

女人确实会杜撰强奸案。

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的故事是如何产生的。