The meaning of Welles is that the past is simply dead what we do in present is creating myth about it.

威尔斯想要表达的就是过去已经逝去了,而我们今天做的仅是创造神话。

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What of it is...make a work right out of the myth, but don't be fooled by the myth.

创造出了这些神话，请不要被神话所愚弄。

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We need to deprive, again, the poets, the song makers, the lyricists, the musicians, the mythmakers, the storytellers, all of them, the power to enchant us.

我们必需剥去，诗人、作曲家、抒情诗人、,音乐家、神话创造者、说书人等，这类人迷幻我们的能力。

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John Ford was a maker of myth.

约翰·福特是要创造神话。

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A horse-drawing carriage in snowfalls that cause tires stick out of control with drivers gently toddles the ground and makes a nice pattern of black and white. That's how it used to be done, because he's a myth maker.

比如一辆马车在雪地上前行，但车轮松动,使马车夫不得不在雪地里慢条斯理地行进,这样的黑白画面塑造了很好的形象,这是他以前的做法，因为他是个创造神话的人，他说。

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