So the story goes, recently I went home to Canada.

故事是这样的，最近我回到了加拿大的家。

Successful people have successful friends. And so the story goes on.

成功的人有成功的朋友。等等等等。

The bones that were left would then be turned into bracelets, so the story goes.

剩下的骨头会变成手镯， 故事就是这样。

So the story goes that all the animals in the world at the beginning of time belong to the Samburu, and they were all livestock.

在很久很久以前，桑布鲁拥有世界上所有动物，那时这些动物都是家畜。

So the story goes, it's 1908, and he's a little kid living in what's now the Ukraine.

故事是这样的，那是 1908 年，他是一个住在现在的乌克兰的小孩。

No sooner had they tossed off their glasses than, so the story goes, they fell down senseless, one and all.

他们刚把眼镜扔掉，故事是这样说的，他们就一个人倒下了，失去了知觉。

The Sabine army went back for their weapons, they marched on Rome to bring their women back, but the women, so the story goes, were just as happy to be Romans.

萨宾人军队回去拿自己的武器，到罗马抢回他们的女人，但是女人们，根据故事所说，很乐意成为罗马人。

One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.

这个故事说，亲吻了这块Blarney石头，就能讲出动听的奉承话，即使是假的也会信以为真。

Right, so the story goes that the Renaissance saw the rebirth of European culture after the miserable Dark Ages, and that it ushered in the modern era of secularism, rationality, and individualism.

是的，故事是这样说的， 文艺复兴见证了欧洲文化在悲惨的黑暗时代之后的重生，并迎来了世俗主义、理性和个人主义的现代时代。