We also have etymological legends, because they're explaining the name of something. It's given this particular name because of an etymomological connection with some event earlier.

我们还有词源传说，它们用于解释,一些事物的名称，它以这个特定的名字命名是因为,它和更早期的历史事件有着词源方面的联系。

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The writer is the first man to map it and to name the natural objects it contains. Those berries are edible. That speckled creature that bolted across my path might be tamed. That lake between those trees will be called Lake Opal or, more artistically, Dishwater Lake.

而作者本人则是第一个为它绘制地图并为每一个自然事物,命名的人，这种讲过是可以吃的，那只身上带斑点,从我身边窜过，的动物也许能被驯服，树木之间的那个湖泊,可以叫“蛋白石湖“，或者，更艺术的，“洗盘水湖“

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