亚里士多德在公元前4世纪提出的一个理论认为，人是天生的模仿者——即从模仿他人、事物和行为和观看这些模仿中获得乐趣。

One, set forth by Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., sees humans as naturally imitative—as taking pleasure in imitating persons, things, and actions and in seeing such imitations.

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“孩子本质上是无私的，”他写道，虽然他们也是天生自私的，家长需要做的只是努力打破两者之间的平衡，使之趋向于社会行为。

Children are altruistic by nature, "he writes, and though they are also naturally selfish, all parents need do is try to tip the balance toward social behavior."

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可能的推断是，我们的记忆、个性和行为并非来自天生的基因构成，而是来自这些微小的神经元细胞中所存储的，我们平时学习到的信息。

The reason this can happen is that our memories, personalities and behaviour are not innate parts of our genetic make-up but learned information, stored up in those little nerve cells.

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Your natural defenses that might provide some kind of a buffer between a commercial message and your behavior, you have a filter, a screen that helps you interpret these message.

人天生的防御心理能够,为商业信息和人类行为之间提供缓冲,电视屏幕像一个过滤器那样,隔离了人和商业信息

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