It has traditional stories and legends, some quite fanciful, Whose goal it is to explain how and why something is what it is.

它讲述了一些传统故事，有一些还极具想象力，它们试图解释事物的形成方式及成因。

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In other words, in this tradition religion came first.

换言之，解释的传统是从宗教开始的。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

They were the judicial authority basing that on their claim to divine descent on their, certainly, noble descent, and on the fact that the nobility had a monopoly of knowledge about what the traditions of the community are.

他们能成为司法机关,是基于他们所谓的神圣血统,当然,就是贵族血统,同时也基于贵族对于知识的垄断,对所谓传统的解释权的垄断

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Just a word for the other side of the argument, I want to read you a quotation from Hans Van Wees, who is the leading critic of the traditional orthodox explanation I just gave you.

顺便提一句反方的观点,我给你们读一段汉斯·万·威斯的话,他是批判传统正统学说的领军人物,就是我刚才说过那些解释

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

I don't have any very good answers for that and yet it is one part of the traditional explanation is this, and it's a very important one and much debated, that at a critical time in the battle one technique would be one side would give one great big shove.

我并没有令人满意的答案,目前还有一种传统解释,很重要,同时也饱受争议,那就是在战局千钧一发的时刻,有一项技术就是一方给对方致命一推

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