The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

  • -- Freda Adler 福雷达·阿德勒

每种文化都用遮羞布覆盖其社会禁忌,这种遮羞布对其道德有双重描述。它揭示了某些未被承认的行为的存在,并指出了这种行为的形式。

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When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

当人类学习理解和控制自己的行为,就像他学习理解和控制农作物和家畜的行为一样,他就有理由相信自己已经变得文明了。

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

城镇正遭受着这一切,我们应该团结起来,直到我们都满意为止,人类不能像动物一样互相残杀,就像我们没有文化一样;这就是缺乏文化。

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

智慧人、勇敢人、贪婪人、愚妄人、都必雇智慧人。

I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser...any other behavior might encourage a repeat performance.

我一直不擅长运动,是个输不起的人。任何其他行为都可能鼓励重复执行。

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

我们的文化特别推崇指责行为,认为这是美德和智慧的标志。