These influences help explain an important part of Sendak's books.

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Now, let me explain a detail that I think is important, but I think a little lost to us in today's world of technology.

现在，让我向你们解释一个我认为很重要的细节，但是我觉得在现在的科技中有点迷失了的。

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And at particular points,when there is something important about the different translations, I'll bring that up,and I'll explain every once in awhile.

某些时候，不同译本中,有什么重要地方需要指出时，我会告诉大家并给出解释。

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This passage I read at length is important for a number of reasons let me just try to explain.

我读出这一长段是基于几个重要的理由,我会加以解释。

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But these are important issues and these vary a lot from culture to culture and a good theory of psychology has to explain how these differences arise.

这些重要问题,在每个文化中都不一样,一个好的心理学理论必须能解释,这些差异是怎么产生的。

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one important argument was,or really family of arguments was, you need to believe in souls in order to explain why bodies are animated, why people are rational,how they can have personalities, how they can be creative,and so forth.

一个或一系列很重要的说法就是，要相信灵魂的存在才能解释身体的活动，为什么人会有理性和人格，为什么有创造力，诸如此类。

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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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