Proverbs are found in most cultures and are often very old.

谚语在大多数文化中都能找到，而且通常都很古老。

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They also are found in most cultures, but how are they different from folktales?

它们也存在于大多数文化中，但它们与民间故事有什么不同呢？

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This manual fixation—an indirect by-product of walking upright on two legs—has helped yield numbers in most cultures, but not all.

作为用两条腿直立行走的间接副产品，对手的过分关注帮助大多数文化产生了数字，但并非所有文化都是如此。

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This helps us to explain, for instance, why in so many cultures the concept of saving face is so important, even if to most modern Americans it seems relatively trivial.

这就很容易解释，为什么很多文化里的面子问题,会变得那么重要，而对许多美国人来说,那都是小事一桩。

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Reason, although it was employed for all sorts of practical and intellectual purposes in some of these cultures, it still lacked independence from religion and it lacked the high status to challenge the most basic received ideas.

尽管在这些文化中,理性在只是理论上,实际活动中都有被利用,但是它始终无法与宗教割裂,地位也很低,而不被大多数人接受

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The fishing industry has family based traditions in most cultures and a business must respect, support, and sustain such traditions as long as they are ethical environmental practices.

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Each sample from the earlier series was matched with the most similar one from the later series, and they were placed in identical cell cultures to see which would multiply the most.

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