Ruralness is often used to explain the distinctiveness of Southern writing and art and so on.

一般来说,乡村气息通常被归结为,南方文学艺术的特色

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Yeats, I said, wanted to speak for and to the Irish people, as well as to explain Ireland and Irishness to an English-speaking world abroad.

我认为，叶芝，想为爱尔兰人写诗，并把爱尔兰及其民族特色,介绍给整个英语世界。

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So according to Wellhausen, the early period of ancient Israel must have been characterized by a free, more natural form of religion, an intimate relationship with God, unencumbered or unsullied by the legalistic cultic obsessions of priests and cult.

据Wellhausen，古代以以列早期,一定是以自由自然的宗教形式为特色的，与上帝关系亲密，不受任何阻碍,牧师和仪式痴迷于遵从律法，造成阻碍。

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