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新概念英语第四册课文原文：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.

等他长大了，能做各种事了，他的社团的习惯就是他的习惯，他的社团的信仰就是他的信仰，他的社团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.

每一个和他诞生在同一个社团中的孩子和他一样具有相同的风俗;而在地球的另一边，诞生在另一个社团的孩子与他就是少有相同的风俗。

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

没有任何一个社会问题比得上风俗的作用问题更要求我们对它理解。

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

直到我们理解了风俗的规律性和多样性，我们才能明白人为生活中主要的复杂现象。

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张被接受下来、同时有些主张被激烈反对时，对风俗的研究才是全面的，才会有收获。

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，任何科学研究都要求人们对可供考虑的诸多因素不能厚此薄彼，偏向某一方面。

887. In all the less controversial fields,

在一切争议较小的领域里，

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

如对仙人掌、白蚁或星云性质的研究，

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

应采取的研究方法是把有关各方面的材料汇集起来，同时注意任何可能出现的异常情况和条件。

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，用这种方法，我们完全掌握了天文学的规律和昆虫群居的习性。