请达人帮我翻译一下,不胜感激Theballadandthefolksonghavelongbeenrecognizedasimportantkeystothethoughtsandfeelingsofapeople,butthedimenovel,thoughsoughtbythecollectoranddeferredtoinageneralwaybythesocia

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请达人帮我翻译一下,不胜感激
The ballad and the folk song have long been recognized as important keys to the thoughts and feelings of a people,but the dime novel ,though sought by the collector and deferred to in a general way by the social historian,is dismissed with a smile of amusement by almost everyone else

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民歌和民谣长期以来被认为是人们思想和感情的重要因素,然而故事动人但毫无文学价值的小说,尽管由社会历史学家和收藏家采用普通方式征集,但也在大多数的人的娱乐消遣的笑声中消失掉了