So, first he makes America mythic, rather than specific , and then he enters into that mythology through acts of identification.

他是首先将美国赋予神话色彩，而不去将它具体化，然后他通过寻找自我认同感的行为进入了自己的神话。

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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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Dante and Milton had mythologies, Shakespeare the characters of English history, of traditional romance is more type than man, more passion than type.

但丁，弥尔顿，莎士比亚写神话,英国历史，古典爱情的人物,是激情而非类型。

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The most important is that Yahweh's battle is a historic battle, rather than a mythic battle. The sea is not Yahweh's opponent, nor is Yahweh's enemy another god.

最重要的一点是，耶和华的战斗，是一场历史意义上的，而不是神话意义上的，大海并不是耶和华的敌人，也不是其他神的敌人。

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Onto the scene then comes the goddess Ate, which might be translated moral blindness.

在这种情况下就该女神阿忒登场了,希腊神话中引诱人或神失去理智而发狂的女神 我们也可以称之为道德无视

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Now there is an irony there, because without the myth, we lose out on a great many worth to survive With myth, taken literally, we are self-fullfilling the past.

现在又多了一层讽刺的涵义，因为没了神话，很多人会觉得失去了活下去的价值,而要是我们按字面意思理解神话，我们就能填补过去的空白。

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Whereas he, Welles, wanted to examine them that's the big difference.

而威尔斯却是要论证神话,这正是他们最大的区别。

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He does not emerge from some preexisting realm and therefore he is free of all of the limitations of myth and magic--we'll go through these one by one--but a God whose will is absolute and sovereign. All right?

他不从任何既存的空间而来，因而他不受任何,神话和巫术的控制，他是完全独立和至高无上的,这些我们将一点一点来分析？

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He does tell you all about the legends first, but he puts them aside and says they're just legends--now let's talk history, and he doesn't begin that until the eight century B.C.

他先将神话传说展示给读者,然后将其放到一边,对读者说,这些只是神话而已,现在咱们说说历史,而他讲的历史是从公元前八世纪开始的

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