We do have, um, a focus on non- Western cultures in one of our core curriculum classes.

在核心课程中，我们确实有一门课不是讲西方文化的。

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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But in fact, it varies a lot from culture to culture, and we'll talk about that during the class.

但实际上,它在不同文化里的表现不尽相同,我们会在这门课里讨论

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Then we realize once again that we can only know what it is if we come to understand--in this case, probably, it's best to say a cultural system, understood as a semiosis, within which it appears.

这样我们就又明白了,只有在一个特定的文化系统中,我们才能认识一个符号。

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While he points out that in our culture we feel very uncomfortable with the absence of words, with the absence of sound or noise.

他指出，在我们文化中沉默，让人不适。

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In terms of just general investing culture-- and we're behavioral in our attitude-- it was clearer that you bought a stock to get a dividend.

在一个投资性文化中,我们更偏向于行动派,人们为了得到分红而购买股票的意图愈加明显

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But we do know from living cultures that people do engage in all kinds of ritual and symbolic actions because of genuine beliefs about the importance of those actions, because those rituals and symbols are extraordinarily meaningful to them.

但是我们可以在还活着的文化中知道些什么,它们蕴含在人们做的各种宗教仪式和有象征意义的行为中,因为人们诚恳地相信这些行为的重要性，因为这些仪式和象征对他们来说意义重大。

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And so, sometimes people approach it in that way, and I think in a way it holds that aura around itself in our culture and in the history of the novel in this period that we're studying together.

有时候人确实这样，我觉得这在一定程度上倒是保留了文化的气氛,以及我们学习的,关于小说这段时期的历史。

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We're not going to talk about sociological attitudes that we have towards the dying in our culture and how we tend to try to keep the dying hidden from the rest of us.

我们不会去讨论在我们的文化中,面对死亡的社会学态度,以及我们如何试着去避免面对死亡。

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You-- It's been a series of-- a huge controversy in the popular culture to the extent of which parents matter and this is an issue which will preoccupy us for much of the course.

你,有一系列的,关于父母在多大程度上起作用,在流行文化里是有很大争议的,我们将会在这门课里用很多的时间,来讲这个问题

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A lot of people are saying, "Enough of this kind of effete culture.

很多人都在说，“我们已经厌倦了这毫无生气的文化。

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Well, in our culture, selfishness and immorality have essentially become synonymous.

在我们的文化中，自私和不道德成了同义词。

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So historians can and in fact have many times taken issue with a lot of Weber's historical claims. But he's invaluable, as the critic John Guillory has argued, for our purposes in the understanding of Milton and of a lot of the cultural business of the seventeenth century in general.

所以历史学家可以，事实上已经对韦伯的历史学断言,持反对意见，但就像评论家约翰古月里说的，对我们来说，在对弥尔顿以及很多,17世纪文化方面的事的了解上,他的意见是非常宝贵的。

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However, in our culture today, we don't give ourselves the permission to be human, the freedom to experience these painful emotions as well.

然而在当今的文化中，我们不准许自己为人，也没有体会痛苦情绪的自由。

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Well our family has taught us, our culture has taught us, but the food industry has taught us too what's food and what's not food.

我们的家人教育我们,我们的文化教育我们,但是食品行业也在诱导我们,哪些能吃哪些不能吃

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Well, i mean a cockroach might be seen as being harmful because we consider them dirty, disgusting, revolting insects and we don't define insects as something we eat, at least in our culture.

蟑螂看起来可能是有害的,因为我们觉得它脏,恶心,是令人厌恶的害虫,我们不把害虫定义为食物,至少在我们的文化中是这样的

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We get a check for the Cheetos as well, but only because we're trained to believe that one tastes good and the other one doesn't, because in different cultures it would be the reverse.

我们还是选奇多作为食品,但选择的原因仅在于,所受的教育,告诉我们它好吃,而蟑螂不好吃,在不同的文化中情况可能是相反的

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