到了浪漫主义时期，这个万能的权威走到了顶点，成了一个孤芳自赏的吟诵者。

In the Romantic Period, this omnipotent authority came to a head, becoming a narcissistic intoner.

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祈祷文犹太教徒每日祈祷时吟诵的祈祷文；关系密切的亲戚死后，哀悼者念的哀悼祈祷文。

A prayer that is recited in the daily synagogue services and by mourners after the death of a close relative.

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梅花坚贞不屈的性格成为冬天里的亮点，不妄古往今来众诗者吟诵。

Plum blossom firmness unyielding character become the bright spot in the winter, not jump through the ages and the mean chanting.

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And that for centuries thereafter, different rhapsodes repeated it but elucidated it, illuminated it, extended it, changed it, tried to improve it, sometimes they added stuff.

在这之后的几个世纪里,不同的史诗吟诵者重复着,讲解着,阐释着 拓展着,变化着,尝试改进着,有时还添油加醋

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in fact I want to use the word stitched together, because in the Ancient Greek world the people who sang, recited, created the poems of the Homeric epics were called rhapsodes, and that means stitchers of songs.

事实上,我想使用"串联"这个词,因为在古希腊,那些歌唱,朗诵,和创作《荷马史诗》的人,被称为吟诵者,就是说把诗歌串联在一起传唱

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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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