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在遥远的过去,每当发生了使人感到惊心动魄的大事后,人们便非常希望把它们告诉给别人,并传承下去。由于当时没有文字和书籍报刊来记载这些重大新闻,人们便编织和演唱歌谣,以此来传述那些大事。这些传述故事的歌谣,我们今天称之为叙事诗。在欧洲和美国,许多叙事诗一直被传唱到今天。这些叙事诗,向我们叙说着很久很久以前发生的古老战争、民族迁徙、不幸爱情或残暴罪恶等等。这些叙事诗在传唱过程中,由于记忆的原因,也由于为了
In the distant past, whenever a thrilling event has taken place, people very much hope that they will be told to others and passed on. Because there was no press and books and periodicals to record these big news at the time, people were weaving and singing ballads in order to convey those big events. The ballads that tell stories are what we call today narrative poems. In Europe and the United States, many narrative poems have been sung today. These narrative poems tell us about the ancient wars that took place long, long ago, ethnic migration, unlucky love or cruel evil and so on. These narrative poems in the process of singing, because of memory reasons, but also because of it