Okay, 'a socially acceptable thing to be eating,' which of course will change from culture to culture even within a country, so that's very true.

好的 "社会认可的可食用的东西",当然这是因文化而异的,即使在一个国家里也是不同的,这种情况是很常见的

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It's a socially acceptable thing to be eating.

它是社会认可的可食用的东西

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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