Gilgamesh was apparently a historical character, an actual king of Uruk but the story of course has fantastic and legendary qualities to it.

吉尔伽美什在历史上，是乌鲁克的国王,但是这系列故事，具有史诗般的传奇色彩。

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The legends, just stories from generation to generation, changed, and molded, but nonetheless, retaining certain elements of the earlier tradition.

那些传奇,仅仅是一些代代相传的故事,它们被改编,被扭曲,尽管这样,仍保留了一些早期的传统元素

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And, again, some of the elements within this group may have brought with them the story of a miraculous escape from Egypt.

现在这一团体内部的一些因素又一次,带来了逃离埃及的传奇故事。

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This legendary birth story has important parallels in Ancient Near Eastern and other literature.

这个传奇的诞生也有对应的故事,在古代近东以及其他一些地区。

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