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文化
Culture
There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
有一种垃圾文化，我们把垃圾倒在人们身上。然后民意调查人员跑来跑去，做了个调查，说，你闻到什么了吗?
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
在个人主义文化中，自恋者是上帝赐予世界的礼物。在集体主义社会中，自恋者是上帝赐予集体的礼物。
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
对于这些文化来说，在不解决深层原因的情况下摆脱痛苦就像在火灾还在继续的时候关掉火灾警报。
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.
每一种文化都有值得羞愧的地方，但是每一种文化也有权利去改变，去挑战消极的传统，去创造新的传统。
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
在黑人文化中，某些孩子会被起绰号，他们会永远和这些绰号混在一起;绰号比真名更重要。我就是其中之一。
I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.
我相信，在一个大城市，甚至在一个小城市或村庄，一个伟大的剧院是一个内在的和可能的文化的外在和可见的标志。
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
我相信任何一个有共同理解的人，通过文化、关心、注意和劳动，都能使自己成为除伟大诗人之外他所喜欢的任何人。
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
我来自一个国家，也来自一个身份正在形成的大陆。我们是一个非常年轻的文化，我认为事情还没有具体化。
The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
福利文化告诉男人他不是家庭的必要组成部分;他觉得自己可有可无，他的妻子知道他可有可无，他的孩子们也感觉到这一点。
How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white.
你的行为举止、走路姿势、长相和谈吐都是嘻哈文化的一部分。音乐是无色的。嘻哈音乐由黑色、棕色、黄色、红色和白色组成。
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.
文化的存在和进化使其沦为互动的习惯范畴，而不断有意识地提及这些习惯范畴将使人类的互动成为不可能。
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
没有文化，也没有文化所暗示的相对自由，即使是完美的社会，也只是一片丛林。这就是为什么任何真正的创造都是给未来的礼物。
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Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
奥林匹克主义是体育和文化的结合。
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。
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
我的文化就是我的身份和个性。它使我在精神上、智力上和情感上与别人不同，我为此感到自豪。
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
文化被恰当地描述为对完美的热爱;这是对完美的研究。
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts into the culture that stay there.
而像胡迪尼这样的人，他非常非常努力地工作，想要非常非常出名，然后他把自己真正的智慧理念融入到当地的文化中。
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.
这些公司经营着我们的文化，他们用胡扯来迷惑我们的文化。