In fact, during this whole period playwrights were writing prologues to their plays abusing each other for being obscure that is to say, abusing each other for requiring interpretation.

事实上，当时,剧作家给别人的剧作写序言时,经常互相指责说对方的作品晦涩难懂,换言之，指责说对方的作品需要解读。

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It reads almost exactly like the prologues to these ancient collections.

读起来几乎就像那些古代法律资料集的序言。

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The Torah laws-- And also, the laws in those collections very often, despite the prologues' rhetoric that they bring justice to the disadvantaged and so on, many of the laws clearly serve the interests of an upper class. Okay, that's the more important point.

尽管《律法》，和那些材料中的法律，在序言中花言巧语，声称自己为弱势群体,带来正义等等，但很明显很多法律都是为上层阶级的,利益服务，记住，这是一个更重要的观点。

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