In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

  • -- Franz Boas 弗朗茨·博阿斯

换句话说,我们感兴趣的是生活在相同的生物、地理和社会环境中,并由他们的过去所决定的人的解剖和心理特征。

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We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart.

我们必须回到我们最后知道的安全地标。我不能确切地说在哪里,但我认为在工业革命开始的时候,我们开始把大量的能源投入到工具中,我们开始用这些工具破坏环境。

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

当我开始写作的时候,我认为文学被包含在一个泡沫中,这个泡沫以某种方式漂浮在报纸评论的世界之上。但我越来越有兴趣尝试在我的作品中融入一些这样的世界。

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.

当我任命环境部长为主要内阁成员时,即规划和优先事项委员会,渥太华发出的信号很重要,因为这是官僚机构所理解的。

The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.

工会主义的本质是社会的提升。劳工运动一直是无产者、被鄙视者、被忽视者、受压迫者和穷人的避难所。

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

进步主义修辞学将社会危机和道德崩溃表现为新秩序的诞生之痛,从而起到了隐藏这些危机和道德崩溃的作用。

I think I was very young when I became interested in fashion.

我想当我对时尚感兴趣的时候我很年轻。