首先，不同的个体和文化决定了哪些东西可以食用，而哪些不可以。

First, individuals and cultures have always made countless decisions about what things are food and what are not.

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我能想象出另一个年代里由由文化决定社会角色，但那个年代与我的人生没有交集。

I can imagine culturally defined roles from a different time, but that time isn't a part of my life.

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在很大程度上，正是这种文化决定了苹果的成功，又毫无意外地使苹果成为理想的工作场所。

And that culture is a huge part of what makes it so successful-and, not surprisingly, a good place to work.

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We then promised to move to an emphasis on psychological matters, and finally social and cultural determinants of literature.

然后我们把重点转移到了心理学，最后还讨论了社会和文化对文学的决定因素。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Literacy turns around not often by itself.

文化素养不仅仅由其本身决定。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

They'll say human rights are ideas and concepts embedded in religious traditions, in cultures, in ethical traditions, and only recently have we decided to make human rights law out of it.

他们会说人权的思想和概念,根植于宗教传统，文化和道德传统中，只是近几百年来我们决定,从而确立了人权法。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选