It's as if his knowledge of his own conception, his own birth, his own babyhood, is a natural knowledge.

好像他很自然地知道自己是胚胎时的故事，知道自己如何出生以及自己的童年。

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It's very common to find stories of the extraordinary events that surround the birth of someone who will later become great: Cyrus of Persia, Oedipus, Jesus, and so on.

经常有关于非同寻常事件的故事,围绕着那些后来很伟大的人们的出生：,如波斯的赛勒斯，俄狄浦斯，耶酥等等。

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