【正确答案】Chinese dragons are (1)legendary creatures in Chinese (2)myths and (3)folk stories.The dragons have many animal-like forms such as turtles, fish, etc.But they are most commonly (4)depicted as snake-like with four legs.Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize (5)mightiness and luckiness, particularly the power of controlling water, rainfall, hurricane and floods.The dragon brings people power, strength, and good luck.(6)With this, the Emperors of China usually used the dragon as a symbol of their imperial power and strength.In Chinese daily language, excellent and outstanding people (7)are compared to a dragon, while incapable people are compared to a worm A number of Chinese proverbs and idioms also have (8)references to a dragon.

【答案解析】(1)“传说中的”可译为legendary，是legend的形容词形式。
(2)“神话”可译为myths。
(3)“民间故事”可译为folk stories。
(4)“描绘”可译为depict。
(5)“强大的、幸运的力量”可转换为名词，翻译为mightiness and luckiness.
(6)此处根据上下文，“因此”可译为with this，表示结果。
(7)“被比作……”可译为be compared to…。
(8)“提到，提及“可译为reference to。