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Cults are as old as recorded history, but contemporary interest in cults became amplified during the late 1960s and early 1970s as numbers of educated middle class youths abandoned traditional religions and embraced beliefs and practices that were either culturally unprecedented or seemed to be throwbacks to an earlier era.

邪教一样古老，有记载的历史，但现代的兴趣，成为邪教的扩增，在上世纪60年代末和70年代初，因为有多少受过教育的中产阶级青年放弃传统宗教和信奉信仰和习俗都是在文化上空前，或似乎是throwbacks较早前的一项时代。

Imagine tropical geographies with unusual flora and fauna, a different rhythm and pace to life, a variety of languages, ancient customs, religions based in meditation, and music that is both strange and odd-sounding to the unaccustomed Western ear.

想象一下热带地域的那些植物群和动物群，不同的生活节奏与韵律，不同的部落语言，古老的习俗，源于冥想境界的宗教及音乐，这一切对西方人来说都是陌生的。

But such posers are unpopular, because they imply that our little customs, or, as we often call them, our religion, mean something, or must originally have meant something, and that we understand and believe that something.

但这些使人为难的问题并不受欢迎，它们意味着我们微不足道的习俗--或者我们常称为的宗教信仰--是富有意义的，或最初一定是富有意义的，并且我们也明白和相信那种意义。

In China, at old days, there were many places where had such kind of custom: at dusk in the Chinese New Year's Eve, a senior member of the family would convene all nonages together and led them to go to the outhouse. Then, symbolically, the senior wiped every child's mouth with a rough straw paper so that the whole family would have a peaceful and a happy new year.

旧时，很多地方还有这样的习俗：在大年除夕的傍晚，由一位年高的长者将家族中所有未成年的小孩召集起来领到茅房中，用草纸象征性地在每个人的嘴上擦拭一下，这样一家人才能安安心心地回去过年。

Turkey, corn, pumpkins and cranberry sauceare symbols which represent the first Thanksgiving. Now all of these symbols are drawn on holiday decorations and greeting cards. The use of corn meant the survival of the colonies.

多少年来，庆祝感恩节的习俗代代相传，无论在岩石嶙峋的西海岸还是在风光旖旎的夏威夷，人们几乎在以同样的方式欢度感恩节，感恩节是不论何种信仰、何种民族的美国人都庆祝的传统节日。

As it is, however, the so-called poetry of law, the symbolic forms that appear in a code or in popular customs, tell us as certainly of the early usages of a people, as the rings in the transverse section of a tree tell of its age.

而实际上，所谓法律诗，出现在一部法典或流行的诸习俗中的各象征形式，告诉了我们一方人民确切的早期用法，就象树的横截面中的环泄露了它的年龄。

From the inclusive, tolerant nature, yet still red witch customs, presenting the exaggerated Han Fu, to the once-popular political Huanglao of surgery, one could see the shadow of Chu culture.

从兼容并包的气度，尚巫尚赤的习俗，铺陈夸张的汉赋，再到政治上一度盛行的黄老之术，都可以看到楚文化的影子。

Smith wants to base the moral rules upon human nature and refuse the conventional view that virtues come from artifical design and vindicate the natural propriety of virtues.

斯密试图把社会的道德准则建立在人的自然的基础上，同时拒斥德性源于人为设计的习俗主义观点，维护德性的自然合宜性。

Except that, in lieu of a single monarch and a fluctuating body of favourites and employ, there was a numerous and in a considerable degree fixed class of great landholders; exhibiting far less splendour, because individually disposing of a much smaller surplus produce, and for a long time expending the chief part of it in maintaining the body of retainers whom the warlike habits of society, and the little protection afforded by government, rendered indispensable to their safety.

不过亚洲各国只有一个君主和一大群宦海沉浮的宠臣和官吏，而欧洲则有一个人数众多和相当稳定的大土地所有者阶级，后者远不及前者穷奢极欲，因为他们就个人来说拥有的剩余产品要少得多，而且在很长一段时间内还要用大部分剩余产品供养他们的家臣。由于社会的好战习俗以及政府无力给予保护，当时大土地所有者为了自身的安全必须豢养一批家臣。

Later, the day of Ching Ming and the Cold Food close to the fire ban Cold Food grave civil day, gradually, and Cold Food and Qingming on the combined, while the Cold Food will serve both as a lucid another name, has become for the Ching Ming Festival, a custom, Tomb Sweeping Day fireworks not move, eat cold food.

后来，由于清明与寒食的日子接近，而寒食是民间禁火扫墓的日子，渐渐的，寒食与清明就合二为一了，而寒食既成为清明的别称，也变成为清明时节的一个习俗，清明之日不动烟火，只吃凉的食品。

And Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, Your father and your brothers have come to you.

47：5 法老对约瑟说，你父亲和你弟兄们到你这里来了。

Additionally, the approximate flattening of surface strip using lines linking midpoints on perpendicular lines between geodesic curves and the unconditional extreme value method are discussed.

提出了用测地线方程、曲面上两点间短程线来计算膜结构曲面测地线的方法，同时，采用测地线间垂线的中点连线和用无约束极值法进行空间条状曲面近似展开的分析。