On your journey, and this is also true of the study of folklore, you need a helper. That's part of fiction. You need another hero.

在你的旅途中，一些民间传说的研究也能证明，你一定需要一个帮手，当然这里面也有虚构成分，你需要英雄。

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We know that two vehicles are going to come along and not help Tony and that the third vehicle will, because everything, as I say, happens in threes in folklore.

我们知道有两辆车会过来,而且它不会帮助托尼，那么第三辆就一定会，因为，我说过，在民间传说中什么都只发生三次。

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Now from the adult point of view, this is culinary because we know that we're in the world of folklore and that in folklore everything happens three times.

现在从成人角度来看，这是烹饪小说，因为我们知道,自己在一个民间传说的世界,而且在一个民间传说中事不过三。

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