A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
文化
Culture
Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
我们的文化是由外在记忆建造的大厦。
We should be sensitive to the culture with which we live.
我们应该对我们所生活的文化敏感。
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
如果你紧跟流行文化,每个人都知道这个笑话。
Every author who straddles culture is inauthentic in a way.
每一位跨文化的作家在某种程度上都是不真实的。
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
人的生理弱点是人类文化的条件。
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
如果你的文化不喜欢极客,那你就真的有麻烦了。
There is no point in living if we cannot take back our culture.
如果我们不能收回我们的文化,生活就没有意义。
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
每个人的能力都可以通过文化得到加强或提高。
We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country.
我们国家需要更多的剧院、更多的艺术和更多的文化。
Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
文化不是虚构的,而是人类进化的产物。
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.
当一种文化认为它的末日已经来临,它就派人去请一位牧师。
It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.
我很难对我们的文化现状发表评论。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题,再读几句。
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
我认为,我们现代文化的一个可能定义是,我们十分之九的知识分子不会读诗。
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
我们当代音乐文化的一个非常重要的方面——有些人可能会说极其重要的方面——是它在历史和地理意义上的扩展,在过去是未知的。
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。
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.
神话是一种主观的真理。每种文化都以某种方式想象生活。
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
我喜欢的东西不一定反映出这种文化认为正确的东西。不知何故,我觉得维持现状没什么意思。
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。