So clearly it's an old story and we have even older prototypes for elements of the story as well.

证明，这是一个古老的故事,我们甚至可以找到更古老的故事原型。

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It's the story of the old opera house and the ghost of the opera, right?

这个故事讲的是一所老歌剧院和歌剧院的幽灵，对吧？

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And so they did come back hundred years later and conquered it, and since--this is the link that explains the old story.

所以他们百年后回来并征服了这片土地,之后...这是一条线索,能解释这一古老的故事

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That is--maybe this goes back to the -I didn't mention it, but it would apply to the old goldsmith banker story as well.

这也许又要回溯到...,我在前面没有提过,金匠银行家的故事同样适合解说这个问题

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Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.

在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退

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