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

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There is rationalization, which is that when you do something or think something bad you rationalize it and you give it a more socially acceptable explanation.

还有合理化，是指当你做坏事或有不良想法时,你会将行为合理化,为行为寻找一个更为社会接受的解释。

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It's a socially acceptable thing to be eating.

它是社会认可的可食用的东西

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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

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