探寻外星人就是为人类寻找一个普遍能接受的宇 宙环境。 从最深层次的意义来说，探寻外星人就 是寻找我们自己。

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is the search for a generally acceptable cosmic context for the human species.

youdao

但是普什图女人们过分好客或者是复仇是普遍不能接受的。

But it is not generally acceptable for Pashtun women to extend hospitality or exact revenge.

youdao

是呀，好象这是很普遍的事。 原来在美国还是有很多人觉得不能接受，他们觉得去看心理医生的都是有些问题，脑筋不太正常的人吧！

LL: It is more acceptable nowadays, but a lot of people are still very uncomfortable about the idea of seeing a shrink.

youdao

The person who does that best is Michael Pollan, and when you read his book, In Defense of Food, he spends some time in the book defining what food is and working through this--this quagmire of how do we define food and what's acceptable to eat, what's socially acceptable, what's personally acceptable.

这一点上迈克尔·伯伦做得最好,你们可以看看他写的书《为食物辩护》,他在书中给食物下了定义,并深入地探讨了这个难题,即如何区分食物与能吃的东西,社会普遍接受的东西,个人能够接受的东西

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