你提到的派尤特传说，其实多数的土著部落都公认有他们所谓的“星星国度”。

You speak of Paiute legends, in fact most of the tribal indigenous recognized what they termed 'Star Nation'.

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你回家去，传说神为你做了何等大的事。

Return home and tell how much God has done for you.

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尘土岂能称赞你，传说你的诚实吗？

Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

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On your journey, and this is also true of the study of folklore, you need a helper. That's part of fiction. You need another hero.

在你的旅途中，一些民间传说的研究也能证明，你一定需要一个帮手，当然这里面也有虚构成分，你需要英雄。

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And we have this myth that if you go into more than 3 libraries in your freshman year, you will not graduate.

我们有这样一个传说，如果你在大一的时候去过三个以上的图书馆，那你就毕不了业。

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He's a standard literary device that you see in fables of this period, and later--the kind that you find for example in the fables of Aesop.

它只是当时在传说中，不可缺少的角色，你可以在随后的伊索寓言中，找到类似的例子。

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