Consider just the following passage from Leviathan with one of my favorite titles from the book, a chapter called "Of Darkness from Vain Philosophy " and Fabulous Traditions."

只需想想《利维坦》中如下的段落,它有一个我很喜欢的标题，这一章叫做,“空虚的哲学和神怪的传说,所造成的黑暗“

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But it's very interesting that when you get to historical Greece, as we shall see, there are no wanaktes but there are, at least according to tradition, basileis.

但相当有趣的是,在希腊历史中我们看不到王这一称谓,但至少是根据传说是有君主这一称谓出现的

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As a virginal orator, should she choose to unleash her powers, she would have the power of an Orpheus moving dumb things to sympathize -- Orpheus being one of Milton's most prized mythological figures of the powerful poet.

作为一名处女演说家，如果她选择释放自己的力量，她应该会有像俄耳甫斯一样的力量,使哑的东西也受到感动而有同情心,俄耳甫斯是弥尔顿最为称赞的有权利的神话传说诗人。

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The kind of myth of the commune was, of course, that from the conservatives' point of view was that these were the furies of hell, the men and the women who rose up to slay their social betters.

有关公社还有一种传说,当然,这是保守派的看法,传说这些人都是来自地狱的怒火,人们揭竿而起去打倒上层社会阶级

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Now, there are Greek traditions that are taken seriously by the Greeks that suggest that kings ruled these cities from the beginning and they have lists of kings with their names, and sometimes with stories attached to them.

古希腊人有他们一些严格执行的传统,这些传统暗示这些城邦一开始就由国王统治的,他们甚至有国王的名字的列表,有时还有关于国王的传说

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And then you had you had your basic republican interpretation that said they were defending the Republic against this sort of monarchy to be restored, and that certainly is part of that as well; but, it also had its socialist component and Marx, for Marx this was terribly important and for Lenin it was as well.

共和党人的说法则是,他们在保卫共和政体,防止王朝复辟,这是也是另一种传说而已,但它也有其社会主义属性,还有马克思,这对于马克思,列宁而言相当有意义

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