didn't do that, but it's very, very interesting

不织布但非常有趣的是
that that is what the Homeric queens do.

荷马史诗中的王后却在织布
Well, how are we to explain the discrepancies that are so great

那么我们怎么解释在这两个世界中
between these worlds? And the answer

所存在的巨大差异呢答案是
that almost everybody now accepts without argument

几乎所有人不加异议地认为
is that these poems were created orally, and passed on orally.

这些诗是口头创作并流传的
That they were not written down, so that

它们并没有被写下来因此
what we have in the poems of Homer reflects centuries of bards

其内容反映的是几个世纪以来吟游诗人
passing on bits of the poem, or the poem in various versions,

对诗歌的不同片段或版本的
being always creative. I mean, any bard,

带有创造性的传唱任何吟游诗人
if by analogy we know about bards in the modern world,

如果和现代社会的吟游诗人相比
we have some evidence on that. Millman Parry,

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