举个例子，在过去的习俗里，产妇在产后一个月内每天都要吃麻油鸡。
For instance, it was once the custom for new mothers to eat a sesame - oil hot pot every day for the first month after giving birth.
过去几十年中，曾被甘地推崇的——或被一些人称之为理想化的——乡村生活把人们留在村庄里，在那些地方，种姓和习俗的纽带仍然强烈。
Over the decades a Gandhian fondness for - some say idealization of - rural life has also kept people in villages, where the bonds of caste and custom remain strong.
这个习俗源于过去贫困的年代，因为这样做可以在昂贵的肉食主菜上桌之前先垫一下肚子，所以当时盛行这样一句俗语：“布丁吃的最多的人也会吃下最多的肉”。
This custom could have arisen in poorer times, to provide a filling portion before the more expensive meat course; "Them that eat most pudding gets most meat" is the most common saying.
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