And still another group, the American Institute of Philanthropy, considers at least sixty percent to be an acceptable amount for program activities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

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

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Do you think I should neck or not? I shall not enter the kingdom of heaven anyway so I don't see what difference it makes.'" And then she writes back, Mary Brittle: "Dear Sabbath: Light necking is acceptable, but I think your real problem is one of adjustment to the modern world.

你认为我是该做还是不该做，我反正都上不了天堂了,因此，我认为做不做都无所谓，之后她给她回信了，玛丽-巴瑞特，亲爱的萨巴斯，你的做法是可接受的，但我认为,你真正的问题是无法融入现代社会。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

That kind of music was played in dance and drinking places and was not considered acceptable.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

She often chose to photograph unusual people living on the edge of acceptable society.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

And also, as I'll discuss in a minute, a lot of people don't recognize what a portion is, and because the food industry has been very successful at recalibrating us to think about what's acceptable to eat in one sitting at one time, and because of that our notions of portions have been thrown way off.

同时,马上我要讲到,很多人不知道摄入量是什么,因为食品业,成功的重塑了我们,就坐用餐时关于什么东西是可食用的看法,而这使我们对摄入量这个概念,有了不同看法

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"Whereas the oil industry may find it business as usual to have a certain number of spills, it is really not acceptable, especially in this day and age.

VOA: special.2011.07.08

Most people had lead in their blood, but it was believed that some amount of lead was acceptable.

VOA: standard.2009.12.19

I do not want to have a person's death on my conscience.'" The rising visibility of Asian-Americans already in the service may make a military career more acceptable to Asian-Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

"Everywhere in Latin America, enemies of America are going to use the picture of Chavez smiling and meetingwith the president as proof that Chavez is now legitimate, that he is acceptable,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.20

The African Union sent Moammar Gadhafi, who currently holds the rotating head of the pan-African body, to mediate the crisis, hoping he could find a solution acceptable to Mauritanian stakeholders and the international community.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12