In other words, the sacrificial cult was primarily a vehicle for worshipers' expression of a wide range of emotions: joy over the birth of a child, thankfulness for a good harvest and so on.

换句话说，献祭仪式从根本上来说,是表达崇拜者各种各样情感的一个途径：,新生儿带来的喜悦，对好收成的感谢，等等等等。

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Remember Paul Ekman's work on the basic emotions, the universals of emotional expression?

还记得Paul，Ekman对基本情绪的研究，情绪表达的共性吗？

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