They were passed down orally within cultures from generation to generation, so they changed a lot over time.

它们是在某一文化领域内代代口头相传下来的，所以随着时间的推移，它们也发生了很大的变化。

He passed down the tunnel.

他穿过隧道。

The story has been passed down by word of mouth.

这个故事是口头流传下来的。

I hope the traditional folk sports will be passed down by more young people, Yang Liu said.

我希望民间传统体育能被更多的年轻人传承下去，杨柳说。

It was considered impolite to taste something from a spoon if it was being passed down to another person.

如果勺子是要传给另一个人的话，用它来品尝食物是不礼貌的。

The traditional craft has been passed down from generation to generation.

这一传统手艺是一代一代往下传的。

Such momentary thoughts were represented in words and passed down across generations.

这种瞬间的想法通过文字表达出来，代代相传。

The Buddha's teachings were passed down in an unbroken chain of oral tradition for four centuries.

佛陀的教诲以传统的口述方式不间断传承了四个世纪。

Were these stories really passed down through the generations or did you contact people and prep them beforehand?

这些故事真的是代代相传的吗，还是你与他们联系，请他们事先准备的呢？

Fairy tales are imaginative stories that like folk legends, they have been passed down orally, from storyteller to storyteller.

民间故事是像民间传说那样的幻想的故事，它们也是口耳相传的，从一代故事讲述者传给下一代。

Folktales are imaginative stories that like folk legends, they've been passed down orally from storyteller to storyteller since ancient times.

就像民间传说一样，民间故事是从古至今口耳相传的想象力丰富的故事。

The man who passed down the street was three sheets in the wind.

街上走过的那个人已是酩酊大醉。

The best memes are passed down through generations.

最佳的文化基因一代代传承。

The craft has been passed down over five generations.

这种手艺已经传了五代。

He had always considered it his own, passed down from grandfather to father to son.

他一直把这块田地当作自己的，从他的爷爷一直传到父亲，传到儿子。

Swords were also buried with their warrior owners or passed down as family heirlooms.

宝剑一般会作为随葬品与它的主人长眠地下，或者是作为家族宝物传承下去。

In 1709, Rowe passed down a tradition that Shakespeare played the ghost of Hamlet's father.

1709年，罗延续了传统观点，认为莎士比亚扮演了哈姆雷特父亲的灵魂。

Then the researchers tested his mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down through your maternal lineage.

接着，研究人员对他的线粒体d NA进行了测试，线粒体中的DNA是从母亲那儿遗传下来的，所谓母系遗传。

"Know thyself" is an old saying passed down through the ages, to encourage us to engage in self-exploration.

“知己！”这个古老的谚语鼓励我们勇于探索自我。

The recipe had apparently been written by a friend of pharmacist Mr Pemberton's then passed down through the generations.

有消息透露，这份配方是被药剂师john Pemberton的一个朋友以“手抄”的形式写下来，一代又一代相传至今。

If the probe function returns TRUE, the frame is passed down the stream, but if it returns FALSE, the frame is dropped.

如果探测器函数返回TRUE，该帧被传递给流，如果返回FALSE，该帧将被丢弃。

The researchers instead speculate that intelligence might be passed down as part of a larger package of good attributes.

研究人员进而推测，聪明可能作为众多优良品质的一部分获得遗传。

The ITM_TEMS_HOSTNAME deployment parameter value will be passed down to the virtual machine created as part of this deployment.

ITM_TEMS_HOSTNAME 部署参数值将被传递到作为部署的一部分创建的虚拟机中。

"Antimicrobial resistance" is thus an ancient phenomenon encoded on resistance genes passed down through microbial lineages.

因此，“抗菌素耐药性”是耐药基因经由微生物谱系传承的一种有编码的古老现象。

But higher corporate costs are passed down the line, often in terms of hiring fewer Americans or shortening their stay abroad.

但公司已经在缩减高昂的成本，通常是减少雇用的美国人，或是缩短他们派驻海外的时间。