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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We're dealing with a highly embellished and theologically interpreted myth of origins for a nation.

我们在探讨,一个高度美化并且经由神学解释的神话,关于一个国家的起源。

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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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