highly attuned to the etymological prehistory of the English word infant.

协调了初期英语的史前语源学。

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like prehistoric elephants and buffalo and things like that.

像史前大象，水牛和其他这类的动物。

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This is an interesting quote about maize from this particular book called Prehistoric Food Production in North America and if you have trouble I'll read it.

这是一句关于玉米的有趣引用,来自于《史前北美食物生产》,如果你们看不请,就让我读一次吧

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It's often fanciful; it relates imaginatively events which it claims Happened in historical time, not in a primordial realm before time, And a myth is designed to explain some kind of practice or ritual or custom or natural phenomenon.

它常常天马行空，关乎一些想象中的事件,它们发生在有历史记载的时期，不是在史前原始王国，所以杜撰故事一般都是来解释一些惯例,或者仪式和风俗或者自然现象。

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