This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

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I'm not aware that any other culture that had city states had ideas of this kind that helped make explain why one was associated with it and cared about it.

我没有发现,其他城市国家的文化中存在一种思想,能够解释,为什么人与城邦关联并为其服务

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