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新概念英語第四冊課文原文：文化的模式

881. and by the time he is grown and able to take part in its activities, its habits are his habits, its beliefs his beliefs, its impossibilities his impossibilities.

等他長大了，能做各種事了，他的社團的習慣就是他的習慣，他的社團的信仰就是他的信仰，他的社團不能做的事就是他不能做的事。

882. Every child that is born into his group will share them with him, and no child born into one on the opposite side of the globe can ever achieve the thousandth part.

每一個和他誕生在同一個社團中的孩子和他一樣具有相同的風俗;而在地球的另一邊，誕生在另一個社團的孩子與他就是少有相同的風俗。

883. There is no social problem it is more incumbent upon us to understand than this of the role of custom.

沒有任何一個社會問題比得上風俗的作用問題更要求我們對它理解。

884. Until we are intelligent as to its laws and varieties, the main complicating facts of human life must remain unintelligible.

直到我們理解了風俗的規(guī)律性和多樣性，我們才能明白人為生活中主要的復雜現(xiàn)象。

885. The study of custom can be profitable only after certain preliminary propositions have been accepted, and some of these propositions have been violently opposed.

只有在某些基本的主張被接受下來、同時有些主張被激烈反對時，對風俗的研究才是全面的，才會有收獲。

886. In the first place, any scientific study requires that there be no preferential weighting of one or another of the items in the series it selects for its consideration.

首先，任何科學研究都要求人們對可供考慮的諸多因素不能厚此薄彼，偏向某一方面。

887. In all the less controversial fields,

在一切爭議較小的領域里，

888. like the study of cacti or termites or the mature of nebulae,

如對仙人掌、白蟻或星云性質(zhì)的研究，

889. the necessary method of study is to group the relevant material and to take note of all possible variant forms and conditions.

應采取的研究方法是把有關各方面的材料匯集起來，同時注意任何可能出現(xiàn)的異常情況和條件。

890. In this way, we have learned all that we know of the laws of astronomy, or of the habits of the social insects, let us say.

例如，用這種方法，我們完全掌握了天文學的規(guī)律和昆蟲群居的習性。