我在圭亚那开始成为青年作家之时，我前面提及的思想与社会潮流不断塑造我的想像力。

The young writer as I was beginning to be in Guyana, those intellectual and social currents I refer to kept shaping my imagination.

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舞者可以沟通思想、保持文化的特性、增强人们与社会的联系，或只是拥有很多乐趣。

Dancers can communicate ideas, preserve cultural identities, strengthen social bonds, or just have a lot of fun.

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社会里的相互作用是人类经验的关键一部分，社会学家现在相信多达五分之四的思想都来自我们与他人的关系。

Social interaction is such a key part of human experience that social neuroscientists now believe that as many as four out of every five thoughts we have are in the context of relating to others.

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And in later letters in this series between her and Richard, and also in the review that she wrote up for the Book of the Month Club newsletter), she invokes the Nazis specifically as a comparison to the kind of oppression that Richard was trying to escape in the South.

她在之后与理查的通信中，把理查在南方,与德国纳粹做比较，当时社会的主流思想,就是在为了美国式的理想,为了自由而战。

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