"The thing that makes me loved the most is trust me enough to make terrible,terrible jokes whether they are just bad, or don't make any sense, or are really offensive and they know that I get,at least, where they are coming from.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

This is the nostalgia or regret of the ethnographer who says, "Now as a result of this terrible Eurocentrism, as a result of the terrible ethnocentrism of the Europeans studying these things, we no longer have a savage mind."

这是人种志学者的怀旧或者遗憾，他说，现在，由于有可怕的欧洲中心主义，由于,研究这些问题的欧洲人有着可怕的种族优越感，我们不再有野性的思维“

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The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss for all of humanity, and at the base, at the root of that civilization stood the Greeks.

如果出于政治的目的而对此段历史,视而不见甚至完全摒弃,这对全人类,将是一个巨大的损失,追根溯源,这一切都根植于希腊文明

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It would either say something like -I'm not going to do the words that they would have come up with, but they would have said, yeah that's a good place to go or don't do that, that's a terrible mistake.

这答案不外乎两种,我不会说他们的那种语言,但是他们的意思大概是,那是个好去处,或者别做那事儿,那是个糟糕的错误

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