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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