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文化
Cultural
I have a lot of cultural references that have amassed in my brain like shrapnel over the years that are meaningful to me.
多年来，我的大脑中积累了许多文化参照，就像弹片一样对我有意义。
Have you heard a single national figure tell you all of the crises of the recent past are not economic, they're cultural?
你有没有听过某个国家的人物告诉你，最近发生的所有危机都不是经济危机，而是文化危机?
Myth is an extremely complex cultural reality, which can be approached and interpreted from various and complementary viewpoints.
神话是一种极其复杂的文化现实，可以从多种互补的观点来探讨和解读。
Is there a point at which we hit a tipping point and all of this economic, cultural and moral trouble sends us into a death spiral we can't get out of?
是否存在这样一个临界点，当我们到达临界点时，所有这些经济、文化和道德上的问题都将我们带入一个无法摆脱的死亡漩涡?
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
讽刺的是，在我们的文化中，每个人最大的抱怨就是没有足够的时间;然而，没有什么比想到永生更让我们害怕的了。
The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.
人之所以没有体验到真正的文化自我，是因为除非他体验到另一个自我是有效的，否则他就没有什么基础来验证自己的自我。
It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
是头脑和心脏。我两个都喜欢吃。我一直想成为一名演员。但文化和智力方面的东西总是让我兴奋。我不想让它过去。
A society that has made "nostalgia" a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
一个把“怀旧”变成文化交流中有销路的商品的社会，很快否定了过去的生活在任何重要方面都比今天的生活更好的说法。
I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.
我希望我的书能经久不衰，经受住时间的考验，为了做到这一点，我将重点放在塑造这个主题的力量上——文化和社会学地理——以一种无论它们在做什么都能解释的方式来捕捉它们。
A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
对古典音乐的热爱只是聆听作品表演的部分自然反应，它还必须由仔细聆听、密切关注的决定所产生，这一决定不可避免地受到艺术的文化和社会声望的驱使。
The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.
时尚明显的无意义也许正是它作为时代精神传感器如此强大的原因。即使是我，一个设计师，也不知道为什么一定比例的人觉得过时，或者为什么另一个人在某一特定时刻感到兴奋。我把这个问题留给文化历史学家和理论家。
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My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.
我的家人…始终具有家庭餐桌的价值和这些文化熏陶下的成长。
A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.
要把锻炼融入孩子们的日常生活，就需要文化的转变。
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
数学没有种族和地理界限;对于数学来说，文化世界是一个国家。
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
投保龄球的人投票。投球手不是文化精英。
My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.
我的家庭从来没有文化，因为我们从来没有去看戏，我妈妈也不是很喜欢电影。
I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.
我必须写那些感到诚实的人，但也要推动我们的文化球向前。