Of course, they won't be perfect, there's a mixed character of the world of Homer, but still, if you look at the world of Odysseus, his home, what's going on in Ithaca, there are some valuable clues.

当然,并不是完美的答案,荷马史诗里写了一些只言片语,如果你继续阅读《奥德赛》里面的故事,在他的家乡伊萨卡岛发生了什么,你会找到很多有用的线索

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She says, just stay with me and I--you will live forever and all will be well and he says, well, you're a very beautiful girl and I enjoy you a lot, but I got to go back to Ithaca.

女神说,留下来,我赐你长生不老,终生美好,但奥德修斯拒绝了,虽然您的魅力让我倾心,但我不得不返回伊萨卡岛

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The best work on this has been done by Elissa Newport and Sam Supalla who have studied people who have been in the United States for many, many years like 30, 40 years and seeing how well they have come to speak English.

在这方面最佳的研究,是由伊莉萨·纽波特,和萨姆·苏普拉所进行的,他们研究了在美国生活了,三四十年以上的人们,探究了这些人们讲英语的流利程度

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And here you see in the Odyssey is what it would likely be, and the place where you see it is back in Ithaca when Odysseus is there or when we're taken to see what's going on.

现在我们再看看《奥德赛》,你会看到,奥德修斯最终回到了,伊萨卡岛,他的故乡

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