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新概念英语第四册课文原文：文化的模式

871. No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes.

没有一个人是用纯洁而无偏见的眼光看待世界。

872. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

人们所看到的是一个受特定风俗习惯、制度和思想方式剪辑过的世界。

873. Even in his philosophical probing he cannot go behind these stereotypes;

甚至在哲学领域的探索中，人们也无法超越这此定型的框框。

874. his very concepts of the true and the false will still have reference to his particular traditional customs.

人们关于真与伪的概念依然和特定的传统风俗有关。

875. John Dewey has said in all seriousness that the part played by custom in shaping the behaviour of the individual, as against any way in which he can affect traditional custom,

约翰.杜威曾经非常严肃地指出：风俗在形成个人行为方面所起的作用和一个对风俗的任何影响相比，

876. is as the proportion of the total vocabulary of his mother tongue against those words of his own baby talk that are taken up into the vernacular of his family.

就好像他本国语言的总词汇量和自己咿呀学语时他家庭所接纳的他的词汇量之比。

877. When one seriously studies the social orders that have had the opportunity to develop autonomously, the figure becomes no more than an exact and matter-of-fact observation.

当一个人认真地研究自发形成的社会秩序时，杜威的比喻就是他实事求是观察得来的形象化的说法。

878. The life history handed down in his community.

个人的生活史首先是适应他的社团世代相传形成的生活方式和准则。

879. From the moment of his birth, the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behaviour.

从他呱呱坠地的时刻起，他所生于其中的风俗就开始塑造他的经历和行为规范。

880. By the time he can talk, he is the little creature of his culture,

到会说话时，他就是传统文化塑造的一个小孩子;