In other words, here is a moment when Levi-Strauss is admitting something about his own work which he is not admitting in his analysis of the Oedipus myth in the essay from Structural Anthropology that you read last time.

换句话说，在这里，列维承认了,关于自己作品的一些观点，而这些观点,是他在《结构人类学》中的那篇文章中,分析俄狄浦斯神话时所没有承认的,大家上次读过那篇文章。

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Right? The state of nature is not seen by him as an actual historical condition in some ways, although he occasionally will refer to what we might think of as anthropological evidence to support his views on the state of nature.

他并不是把自然状态理解为,某种方式的实际的历史性的状态，即使他偶然性地,用人类学的证据,去支持他自然状态的观点。

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