A Christmas tree, in other words, is a sign that can only be understood intelligibly in terms of a certain cultural understanding.

也就是说，它仅仅用于，也仅仅在一定的文化背景中,才能有意义，被理解。

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Now the reason that is true is because we live in a post-Christian culture, and both aspects of that term are important.

出现这种情况的原因是,我们生活在后基督教文化中，有两方面的意义。

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There's a real sense, I think, in which Milton wanted to re-create all of Western culture or to re-create all of Western culture in his own image.

我认为，米尔顿想要完全重建西方文化,或者说是按他自身的形象重建西方文化,是有切实意义的。

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So the total number of shares is almost-- the tendency to do splits is a cultural thing; it's of no real significance.

所以股票总数几乎是个,这种分割的趋势是文化使然,没有实际的意义

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There are lots of people who have pointed out to us that before a certain period, there was no such thing as man, and in a variety of quite real senses, after a certain moment in the history of culture, there is also no such thing as man.

很多人向我们指出,在某一特定时间点前是没有人类的，而且在真实意义上，在文化史中的某一特定时刻后，人类也不存在。

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He's willing to sacrifice historical or cultural exactitude of meaning.

他愿意牺牲意义在历史上和文化上的精确性。

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