So this is a myth in the sense that it's explaining some custom or ritual among the people.

这有点神话色彩,它解释了人类中间的一些习俗和仪式。

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One consequence of this view is that for Yeats history starts to look like a poem, or it starts to conform to laws of poetic imagination or of tragedy, if you like, of myth.

这导致了,叶芝的历史观诗化了，或说是符合悲剧中,诗意想象的规律了，也可以说，神秘主义了。

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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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In other words, Freud, Sophocles, all of the other versions I have at my disposal, have equal merit as versions, but none of them is a transcendental signified, none of them is a blanket term, and none of them is the causal explanation or meaning of the myth.

换句话说，弗洛伊德，索福克勒斯，还有所有其它供我使用的版本，都用同样的优点，但它们中没有一个是超验所指，没有一个是概括性话语，没有一个是神话的随意解释或意义。

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Some of you who are maybe familiar with Plato's later dialogue The Republic may recognize at least what seems to me, what we have here, is a foreshadowing of the myth of the cave, or the allegory of the cave, which Plato describes there as well.

你们中的那些,对柏拉图稍晚些的《理想国》对话录,熟悉的同学会知道,起码我认为,我们这里讲的是预示着洞穴的那个传说,或者洞穴的寓言,柏拉图在也描述过

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Now, the Judeo-Christian story, as I think of it-- by the way, the word "Story" Is a translation or it means the same thing the Greek word muthos, our word, myth.

那么,犹太-基督教的故事呢,我想,顺便提一下,"故事"这个词,同希腊语希腊语muthos意思相当,意思同我们所称的"神话"

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