On your journey, and this is also true of the study of folklore, you need a helper. That's part of fiction. You need another hero.

在你的旅途中，一些民间传说的研究也能证明，你一定需要一个帮手，当然这里面也有虚构成分，你需要英雄。

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Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

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The story in Exodus has high drama, and lots of folkloric elements including this contest between Moses and Aaron on the one hand and the magicians of Egypt on the other hand.

出埃及记》中的故事很有戏剧性，有很多民间传说的元素,由摩西和亚伦之间的较量,以及与埃及巫师的争斗。

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Pearse is seen as, in Yeats's poetry and in popular lore, as Cuchulain, as a kind of avatar of the mythic Irish hero.

在叶芝的诗里皮尔斯被看作是，民间传说中，的英雄王库丘林，是爱尔兰神话里下凡的天神。

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