若干原因造就了这种局面：有些原因早在查尔斯·狄更斯时代、或许更早的荷马时代就存在了：人们还是需要一些谈资与朋友分享。

There are several reasons for this.Some are as old as Charles Dickens (or perhaps even Homer).people still want to have something to talk about with their friends.

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有益于卡特尔的愚蠢规定普遍存在：俄克拉荷马州保护消费者免遭无许可证室内装饰带来的危险。

Senseless rules that benefit cartels are common. Oklahoma protects consumers from the perils of unlicensed interior decorators.

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荷马尚有打盹之时，从不犯错误的人是不存在的。

Homer sometimes nods. There is nobody in existence who never makes any mistake.

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There are no arguments in Homer's Iliad or Odyssey. You hear strong and compelling stories but no arguments.

没有辩论存在于荷马的《伊利亚德》,或《奥德赛》书中，你可以读到强烈,与令人信服的故事，但没有争辩。

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When they're through and had reached their peak, their notion of monarchy is something fit for barbarians, but not for Greeks. A free man may not live under a monarchy, and the roots of that, I think, are visible in Homer.

当他们赢得竞争,到达权利的顶峰时,他们所谓的君主制其实更适合于异邦人,而不是希腊人,君主统治下不存在自由人,这个想法的根源可以在《荷马史诗》中找到

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And then A.M. Snodgrass says, "I offer this as a further argument against the existence of a historical, Homeric society."

·M ·斯诺德格拉斯又说道,"我质疑荷马社会,在史实上存在的真实性"

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