But to find a common denominator where we can all talk, where we don't find ourselves divided by religion or culture anymore, because we've got down something so essential.

我们所找的共通之处可以使我们彼此交流，让我们发现我们,不再被宗教与文化分隔开来，因为我们已经获得了最本质的东西。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

It's really impossible, in fact, that you not have some opinions about this work, because it's an intimate part of our culture.

但实际上要你们对这想，是不太可能的，因为这已经成为我们文化不可或缺的一部分了。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

You might have trained yourself to do that and then maybe-- there may be cultural reasons why you like broccoli better then Haagen-Dazs lets say.

你可能已经训练自己去做这些,可能出于文化原因,你喜爱西兰花甚过哈根达斯

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

It's never vanished in our culture.

它已经根植于我们的文化

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

And there's been some efforts cross-culturally, to go back to the question this young man asked before looking at cross-cultural differences in toilet training and weaning, which are really big differences, to see if they correspond in any interesting way to personality differences.

回到刚才那位同学提出的问题，确实也已经有些跨文化的研究试图探究,在如厕训练和断奶上的跨文化差异,这些差异是非常大的，而这些研究的目的，是为了看看这些跨文化上的差异,是否与人格差异存在着某种联系。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Give me some myth that we all know of, you know, Paul Bunyan's axe handle is something in American nature which I now no longer remember!

随便给我说一个大家都知道的故事，在美国文化中，Paul，Bunyan的斧柄算是一个,但我已经记不清了！

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选