西安大略大学的心理学家罗德马丁说：“事实上，我们对喜剧天才的崇拜是相对较新且没有根基的。”

In fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario.

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我立大地根基的时候，你在那里呢。

Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?

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没有了信任，美元这种以信任作为根基的货币究竟靠什么支撑？

In the absence of faith, what stands behind a faith-based currency?

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So, the citadel and the farmland surrounding it, make up fundamentally the unit which is the Mycenaean kingdom.

因此,以城堡和周围的农田为根基,组成了称为迈锡尼帝国的文明

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The message of the flood story also seems to be that when humans destroy the moral basis of society, when they are violent or cruel or unkind, they endanger the very existence of that society.

而洪水所表达的信息是,当人类毁掉了社会的道德根基，当人类变得暴力，残忍，这都会危及到人类社会的存在。

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Well, the taproot of conservatism you could say is right there in the Old South.

保守主义的根基,你可以说它就在旧南方

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