月亮在世界的古老神话中是一位具有双重性格的女神。

In the world's ancient myths the moon is a goddess, having a double personality.

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现在应该是揭穿长期来认为童年是人的一生中最幸福的时代这个古老神话的时候了。

It's about time somebody exploded that old myth about childhood being the happiest of your life.

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然而《我的新美国生活》结果是无异于对美国梦这个古老神话的陈旧、讽刺的重述。

But it turns out that "my New American Life" is really little more than a tired and faintly cynical riff on the old myth of the American Dream.

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Here it is; it's in your anthology as well: I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eye As though they'd wrought it.

你们选集里有这首：,我为我的歌儿缝就,一件长长的外套,上面缀满剪自古老,神话的花边刺绣；,但蠢人们把它抢去，穿上在人前炫示,俨然出自他们之手。

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