全文共分四个部分：第一章立足于文化三维性的整合是文化自我更新与自我保持的关键。

In the first part, I discuss that integration is the key for culture to renew and maintain itself.

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它们是人们进行心理防卫的方式，其目的是使自我保持一种积极的、具有一致性和稳定性的状态。

They are considered defense mechanisms which enable the human self to keep a positive, consistent and steady state.

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保持镇定是一种自我控制活动。

Staying calm was an exercise in self-control.

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Socrates seems to remain, even until the end, very much a kind of law unto himself while at the same time, again, providing Crito and others like him an example of rational and dignified obedience to the law.

苏格拉底一直到最后，似乎都保持着一种自我定义的法律,但同时，却也提供克里托及其它同类,一种理信,与庄严的服从法律范例。

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