Genealogy is also important for membership in some historical or cultural organizations.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

I don't think I have a clearly defined position which makes me different from some parties to the dispute, whether it's political or cultural or religious.

但我不认为自己有一个特定的立场,将我和其他人区分开来，无论是从政治上，文化上还是宗教上。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Like Milton, Satan is in the business of demystifying power, of exposing political or cultural power as something that is not simply inherently there or naturally there.

正如弥尔顿一样，撒旦也是要揭开力量被神化的幻想，向人们揭露政治或文化力量并不是,与生俱来自然而然的存在的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

This is often because of religious or cultural reasons.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

The United Nations cultural organization UNESCO named it a World Heritage Site in 1998 - a designation for places of special physical or cultural value.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Here's the editor, great editor of the publisher Faber & Faber, thirty years later, or more, surrounded by books, ; the cultural arbiter of the English speaking world; T.S. Eliot at sixty.

0年后，这就是费伯-费伯出版社的大编辑，被成堆的书籍包围着，被视为英语语言世界的文化标尺;,这就是60岁的艾略特。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

In the last generation or so, different groups have encouraged public schools to celebrate diversity and cultural differences.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

They've tended to view the elaborate and carefully constructed texts of P as part of a system whose meaning derives from the larger cultural matrix or grid in which those materials are embedded.

他们注意观察P中十分详尽和仔细构造的内容,这个内容属于某个系统的一部分,源自一个更大的文化母体或网络,所有的这些材料内容都包含在里面。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Some parents name their children based on family,cultural or religious traditions.

VOA: special.2009.07.06

And Mark has been extraordinary, as a leader, in maintaining a very high bar and at times, walking away from people who are receiving outstanding recommendations but either don't fit from a cultural standpoint or they're not going to scale and they'd be the wrong person a year or two from now.

作为Facebook的领导者，马克始终坚持选人标准，从不手软，他经常会放弃一些,得到强有力推荐的应聘者,他们要么是在文化方面不契合,要么是因为，如果公司没打算扩张,那他们在一到两年内,会成为错误选择。

斯坦福公开课 - 扎克伯格谈Facebook创业过程课程节选

"As far as cultural sensitivities, we brought him back to the vehicle, not to disrespect him or his family.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Milton's power from this perspective of the radical cultural critique is really not so different from the power of the late Jerry Falwell or someone like Rush Limbaugh.

在这个方面，弥尔顿激进的文化批判的力量,与后来的杰瑞·法威尔或类似拉什·林堡的人,的力量没有什么本质不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"I know some people will regard that as peculiar for a digital device but it is, it's more like an album launch or a film premiere because the device is not just something for nerds, it has a cultural meaning too."

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

Even if we locate a source of some kind of genuine strength, authoritative strength, it's still usually possible, as it is for Satan, to argue that that power is really at base just the concealed product of custom or what we would think of as cultural construction.

有时即使我们找到了一种真实的，权威的力量，还是有可能像撒旦所辩解的那样，这种力量其实只是,约定俗成的规矩教条的隐秘产物,或者如我们所想来自文化建构。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

in which we suddenly find ourselves, without meaning to and without being simply victims of any sort of cultural tyranny, standing in front of something, clasping our hands, tilting our head and feeling somehow or another different from the way we feel when we typically look at things.

我们会突然发现，自己毫无理由地,不受任何外在因素控制地，站在一样东西面前，拼命地鼓掌，歪着头品味，感觉到此时此刻的感受,与平时不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选