And he acknowledges here finally that the ideal of virginity is an ideal for which women are typically praised - and of course this goes without saying.

最后他也承认,关于妇女通常被赞美的童贞理想只是空想,当然这是不言而喻的。

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But then developments in other fields can change the relative prices and suddenly make an idea that had been hypothetical and unapplied suddenly work well.

而其他领域的发展,改变了相对价格,过去那些看似空想,而且不切实际的主意,就突然间变得可行了

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And so the stories couldn't have been simple inventions, and that began a new phase in the story. And, again, to repeat what I said last time, there were certain stunning physical resemblances between what Homer said and what we could see.

所以,神话传说并不只是人们的空想,这样事情就有所不同了,同时,我重复下我上次所说的,《荷马史诗》所描述的世界,在当今确有令人吃惊的实物证据

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