And this is also a good time for us to draw a distinction between mythology and myth.

现在正好让我们做一个区分,弄清楚神话和杜撰故事的区别。

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There's been, probably apocryphal, stories about children who are raised by wolves or by dogs.

有很多狼或狗抚养儿童的故事,当然这些故事有可能是杜撰的

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But these stories rival, and implicitly polemicize against, the myths or mythologies of Israel's neighbors.

这些故事相矛盾，且隐含着相反含意，与以色列的杜撰故事和神话传说。

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Why would you invent a myth of origins in which your ancestors are slaves?

为什么要杜撰关于起源的神话,在这神话中，你的祖先却是奴隶？

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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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