With I should say the possible exception of the economists who often will believe that economic motives and transactions provide the key to all possible human behaviors.

知识分支当中,可能的例外是经济学家,他们常认为,是经济动机与交易,决定了所有可能的人类行为。

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That is true of all of human societies that we know anything about down to the earliest possible exception, I suppose; well, it depends what you think is earliest.

确实,在所有我们了解到的,人类社会中,我想"最早的"可能除外,当然,这取决于你是怎么理解"最早的"

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