So it could be part of a larger system of folk beliefs, certainly.

所以它当然可以成为更大的民间信仰体系的一部分。

That's really the meaning in this expression " folk beliefs."

这就是“民间信仰” 这个表达的真正含义。

Every region and country has its own folk beliefs.

每个地区和国家都有自己的民间信仰。

All of these might be part of folk beliefs.

所有这些都可能是民间信仰的一部分。

The question has to do with three words or terms: " folk beliefs, " " omens, " and " signs."

这个问题与三个词或术语有关：“民间信仰” 、“预兆” 和“迹象” 。

Many folk beliefs, as I say, are related to medical practice.

正如我所说，许多民间信仰都与医疗实践有关。

Many of the folk beliefs in the United States are in fact folk beliefs from other countries.

美国的许多民间信仰实际上是其他国家的民间信仰。

" Folk beliefs, " then, would be things that the average person would believe or has believed perhaps in the past.

那么， “民间信仰”就是普通人可能相信或过去可能相信的事物。

When immigrants came here, they brought those folk beliefs with them.

当移民来到这里时，他们带来了那些民间信仰。

Getting back to Dmytro's question, then, we have " folk beliefs" and we have " omens" (omens).

回到德米特罗的问题，那么，我们有“民间信仰”，我们有“预兆”（omens）。

Now, there might be a folk belief about certain things that are thought to be omens.

现在，民间可能会相信某些被认为是预兆的事物。

According to Chinese folk beliefs, during the last month of the year ghosts and deities must choose either to return to Heaven or to stay on Earth.

根据中国民间习俗，鬼魂和神灵都要在腊月选择返回天上还是留在人间。

Sometimes these folk beliefs are eventually verified by science – that is, we may study certain folk beliefs as related to medicine and discover that there is some truth to those beliefs.

有时，这些民间信仰最终会被科学证实——也就是说，我们可能会研究某些与医学相关的民间信仰， 并发现这些信仰有一定道理。

" Science doesn't align with folk beliefs, " said Cantlon, senior author on the paper. " We see that children's brains function similarly regardless of their gender so hopefully we can recalibrate expectations of what children can achieve in mathematics" .

" 科研结果与民间的传统观念大相径庭" ，这篇论文的通讯作者坎特伦说。 " 我们发现孩子尽管有性别之分，但大脑运作的方式是相似得，因此我们希望能重塑人们对儿童在数学上所取得得成就的预期。"

Often folk beliefs are not based on scientific evidence, or at least weren't created as part of a process of science or any systematic investigation – rather, they were things that people have believed for many years.

民间信仰通常不是基于科学证据，或者至少不是作为科学过程或任何系统调查的一部分而创造的——相反， 它们是人们多年来一直相信的东西。