So this is why you sometimes had Jews getting in trouble with local groups and had violence with Jews in different places.

所以犹太人常常与当地人发生冲突,在各地都发生涉及犹太人的暴力事件。

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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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