He says, "This book tells a harsh and forbidding story and makes one wonder just exactly what its relation to truth is.

他这样写道：,“这书讲的是一个既冷血,又令人恐惧的故事,将人置于一个总想知道,它与现实关联的状态“

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Just to carry on some of the highlights of that story, that tells us a lot about the society.

继续讲故事里面的几个要点,这反映很多社会现实

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Wouldn't a later writer have cleaned up this ancestral record if this were in fact something composed at a later period? Also, he notes that the representation of inter-ethnic relationships in the patriarchal stories does not accord with the reality of a later period.

后世的作者难道不会把祖先不光彩的记录抹去吗,如果事实上这故事是后来创作的话？同时，他还提出，宗族故事中所展示的种族间关系,与后世的现实是不相一致的。

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So, I think that became-- and whatever the reality was, that story was always being told, that's the way for a man to fight; anything other than that is open to suspicion.

所以我认为,无论现实是怎样的,那个故事总是被讲述着,那才是男人的战斗方式,其他的方式就会受到猜疑

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