对于西方人来说，世界是相对简单的，世界是由孤立的物体构成，可以不受背景影响而感知，并且事物受个人高度控制。

To the Westerner, the world is a relatively simple place, composed of discrete objects that can be understood with undue reference to context, and highly subject to personal control.

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问题在于，我们每个人对一个网站是好还是坏的感知，是受我们个人背景和行业特性的影响而有所偏倚的。

The problem is that each of our perceptions of how 'good' or 'bad' a Website is, is skewed by our personal backgrounds and specialties within the industry.

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我相信—我们受成长背景和生活环境的影响，但我们却要为自己今天的模样负责。

I believe - our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

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So this is, in effect, the backdrop in which in the American academy--influenced, - as we'll now see, by certain trends in the British academy-- arose in the thirties and in the forties.

所以实际上,这就是当时美国学术界，受英国学术界影响-,在三四十年代崛起的背景。

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