sure there are differences. We see that our manuscripts are not exactly like those fragments, but there is a remarkable degree, a high degree of correspondence so that we really can speak of a relatively stable textual tradition but still some fluidity.

当然其中会有差异，我们手中的这些原稿,一定和那些片段有细微差异，但在很大的程度上,我们能说是和那文本传统大致相符的,但还是存在一些差异。

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So that what we have before us, is that kind of product and that will explain both the similarities and the differences, and that is what underlies our interpretation of how the poems got to be what they were.

所以,这些就早先吟诵者的产物,它解释了史诗和史实的相似和差异,并构成了我们演绎,《荷马史诗》产生过程的基础

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