Mythology is used to describe stories that deal with The birth, the life events of gods and demi-gods, sometimes legendary heroes, but narrating a sequence of events.

神话是指一些这样的故事,它们有关神或者半人半神的诞生及生平，也有时候是一些传奇英雄，讲述他们的一系列事迹。

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What could possibly be more presumptuous than the association of the beginning of one's own career, one's own literary career, with the birth of the Christian messiah?

还有什么能够比,把自己事业的开端，自己的文学生涯，与基督教救世主的诞生相提并论更胆大妄为的？

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

It has no more connection with its author from birth on and roams the world on its own.

作品一旦创作成型就和作者没有联系了,它独立的存在着。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Remember our concern isn't straightly speaking with the question did the soul exist before our birth, did the soul exist before our bodies, but rather is the soul is immortal.

记住我们关注的并非是,对以下问题之前的回答,即灵魂是否先于出生而存在，灵魂是否先于身体而存在，而是灵魂是否不朽。

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His contemporaries are doing a kind of thing with their representation of the birth of Christ that Milton seems carefully to have avoided.

他的同龄人都在描述基督的诞生,而这正是弥尔顿极力避免的。

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