Now, despite the fact that this is a very small piece of land, it boasts great geographical diversity.

尽管它只是狭小的一片土地，它因丰富多样的地理而自豪。

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So, there's a tremendous variety of material in this library, and it follows from the fact that it's not a book but an anthology of diverse works, that it's not an ideological monolith.

在这座图书馆里有丰富多样的材料，因此这不仅是一本书,而是各种各样文献的合集，这不是什么讲思想道德的长篇大论。

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For example, nowhere in the world would people consider eating a rock, because a rock is non-food across all cultures; but aside from that, there's great variability and so social construction part of this is very important.

举例来说,世界上没有哪里的人会想吃石头,因为不管在哪种文化中,石头都不能当做食物,但是除此之外,各地的食物丰富而多样,所以社会意识是非常重要的一部分

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