Now incidentally, in a for-profit corporation-- this is how to understand this, this is a concept that is enshrined in law.

顺便提一下,在一家盈利性公司中,我们需要这样理解,这是个在法律中明文昭示的概念

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For most people, that's a difficult concept and-- I think I may have mentioned some of this before, but let me give this history.

这个概念对大多数人来说有些难,我记得我之前提及过其中一些,但还是让我来讲述一下它的历史

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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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If he is beneath the polis it means he's beneath what it is to a human being, and that tells you just how potent is this concept of a community for the Greeks and it emerges in its own way from the Iliad and the Odyssey.

反过来,如果一个卑微到无法进入城邦的人,那也就意味着他作为人的意义同样卑微,由此可见,集体的概念,是多么的深入希腊人的心中,在《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》中,便揭示了这一点

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