Bailyn argues that the colonies were a half-civilized hinterland of the European culture system.

贝林认为，殖民地是欧洲文化体系的半文明腹地。

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More than half a century ago, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) opened its Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) to explore the role of technology in culture.

半个多世纪前，麻省理工学院（MIT）开设了高级视觉研究中心（CAVS），探索科技在文化中扮演的角色。

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Over the past century and a half, however, studies in the history of human development have shown that the formation of culture is part of the biological adaptation.

然而，在过去的一个半世纪里，对人类发展史的研究表明，文化的形成是生物适应的一部分。

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Soon that's all the community may have left--the strident echo of a half-remembered Portuguese culture.

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Packing then made its way north of the Rio Grande and pack culture adopted a series of half-twists in keeping with the burgeoning world of New Spain.

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With a language and culture similar to those of their big brothers in Romania, Moldovans seem half-hearted patriots though few yearn for their country to be knitted back into Romania itself.

ECONOMIST: Moldova