城市虽大，但文化的局限使他们的世界变得狭小。

Although city is big, the limitation of knowledge makes their worlds smaller.

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尽管其暴露在外面的最表层可能改变，就如同冰山会因阳光和雨水而融化一样，但文化的根基则不随时间而发生太大变化。

While the visible tip may change-as an iceberg will melt with sun and rain-the base does not change very much over time.

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尽管文化差异巨大，但世界各地的英雄通常都有一些共同的特点，即指导和激励人们。

Despite immense differences in cultures, heroes around the world generally share a number of characteristics that instruct and inspire people.

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So we're in this kind of situation where we have the hangovers of Christianity still occupying the culture, without necessarily knowing a lot about it.

所以我们的当代文化,虽然受到基督教遗留的影响，但同时这种影响并不是巨大的。

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But in fact, it varies a lot from culture to culture, and we'll talk about that during the class.

但实际上,它在不同文化里的表现不尽相同,我们会在这门课里讨论

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They do, but it doesn't intersect quite as intensely as musical notation does in Western cultures.

他们的确有,但他们的记谱法并没有贯穿文化的始终,比不上音乐记谱法在西方文化中的地位

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