They were, rather, a loose collection of songs transmitted by generations of Greek bards, and only redacted in their present form at some later date.

相反，它们是由几代希腊吟游诗人传唱的散文集，只是后来才以现代的形式进行了编辑。

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The registration form showed his date of birth as August 2, 1979.

登记表上显示他的出生日期是1979年8月2日。

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Date input is hard because there are so many ways to represent the same date in string form.

由于以字符串形式来描述同一日期的方式很多，所以日期的输入是困难的。

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