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[00:02.60]发现化石人
[00:05.20]First listen and then answer the following question.
[00:07.77]听录音,然后回答问题
[00:10.34]Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful?
[00:13.22]为什么由讲述人传下来的传奇故事很有用?
[00:16.09]We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Near East,
[00:19.42]我们从书籍中可以读到五千年前近东发生的事情,
[00:22.75]where people first learned to write.
[00:24.72]那里的人最早学会了写字
[00:26.70]But there are some parts of the world where even now people cannot write.
[00:30.01]但直到现在,世界上仍然有些地方,人们还不会书写.
[00:33.33]The only way that they can preserve their history is to recount it as sagas
[00:37.50]他们保存历史的唯一办法是将历史当作传说讲述,
[00:41.67]--legends handed down from one generation of storytellers to another.
[00:45.05]--由讲述人一代接一代地将史实描述为传奇故事口传下来.
[00:48.43]These legends are useful because they can tell us something
[00:51.55]这些传说是很有用的,因为它们能告诉我们
[00:54.67]about migrations of people who lived long ago,
[00:57.60]以往人们迁居的情况,
[01:00.53]but none could write down what they did.