Gilgamesh was apparently a historical character, an actual king of Uruk but the story of course has fantastic and legendary qualities to it.

吉尔伽美什在历史上，是乌鲁克的国王,但是这系列故事，具有史诗般的传奇色彩。

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So David, the theme of David as the elected king of God, David also as the ideal king, is something else that is a theme of these books.

大卫王，他被上帝选为国王这个故事的主题，他也是一个理想化的国王，这也是这些经书的一个主题。

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And this is based on the story, the mythical story of a king who killed his father and married his mother.

名字来自于一个故事，一则国王弑父娶母的希腊神话。

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No, I think somebody had to make up a story, but the memory of kings was not of a Tarquinius.

我想总有人得编故事,而这传说中的国王并非一个,"塔克文"式的

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Well, there's a story-- there's a long story in the Mahabarahta about an emperor called Nala and he had a wife named Damayanti and he was a very pure and very good person.

有那么一个故事,在摩诃婆罗多一书中有篇长故事,有关一个名叫那勒的国王,他有个妻子叫妲玛言狄,他是个非常纯洁善良的人

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It's also interesting that Athens has a very clear tradition of thinking they had kings, and what I think is very telling is the story they give us about how kingship came to an end in Athens.

这很有趣,雅典人有个非常鲜明的传统,认为他们有过国王,他们有个我觉得很生动的故事,描述雅典的王权是如何终结的

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