Very often in these creations stories there is some sense of some realm from which life begins to emerge usually beginning with gods.

通常在这些创作的故事里，都会说到,神是人类的最先。

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Over the course of that life, she wrote mostly short stories, and so she is very much known for her short stories.

在整个生命年华里，她主要创作短篇故事，并因此声名远播。

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That's the name of the city-state over which he is king. And the epic as we now have it was probably composed between 2000 and 1800 BCE.

吉尔伽美什的故事,据传，这部史诗创作于公元前2000-1800年之间。

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The average society sees them like an etertainment but I think to the directors and writers put a lot more efforts into this and it produced entertaining stories. So all I want to see is more under...and try to understand what that tries to...a couple of those who have.

一般人都拿它们当消遣,不过我想导演和作家,可是付出了很多努力,才创作出这么有趣的故事,所以我只想多深入了解并理解,几位这样努力过的人。

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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