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。

The one I choose to believe may be apocryphal.

我择相信的那个可能是伪造的。

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

这是一个杜撰的故事，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.

瞎编的吧 -不 是真的和妈妈曾在那里待过 说是真的。

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).

其中一些是杜撰的，比如他在耶鲁大学得C的一篇论文，这篇论文概述了他的想法(他记不起分数了)。

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（可能是杜撰的）故事而受到赞誉，该故事讲述了在名为“战棋”的视频游戏中所做的一段故意不必要的工作。

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."

我拍的关于玛丽莲的电影叫《我与梦露的一周》，我相信这是个真实的故事，也许是杜撰的，但那是在她拍《游龙戏凤》的时候。

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，当他读到他非常喜欢的伪经时，西拉奇敏锐的文字之子会带来愉快的微笑，尽管他也享受偶尔与伪经作家不同的自由。