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现代大学英语精读(第2版)第二册:U9B Understanding Society and Culture Through Eating(5)

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Each society's culture is transmitted to children through eating with the family, a setting in which individual personalities develop, kinship obligations emerge, and the customs of the group are reinforced. Children learn at mealtimes to express a formal reverence for food through the custom of saying grace, as in what Christians know as the Lord's Prayer ("Give us this day our daily bread"), and they become acquainted with the regulations governing what their society considers edible. For many African children, this amounts to learning that a meal is not a meal unless it includes porridge. Europeans are brought up to feel much the same way about bread, and many North Americans genuinely believe that dinner is not really dinner without meat.

每个社会的文化都是在家庭共餐的时候传递给儿童的;在那个环境下,个体的性格得到发 展,亲情责任感显现,群体习俗得到加强。儿童在用餐的时候学会通过饭前祷告来郑重地对食物表达敬意,就如同基督徒们熟知的主祷文(“感谢主赐给我们每天所需的面包”)中那样。他们还会逐渐熟悉社会公认的一些饮食规则。对很多非洲儿童来说,这意味着要明白没有稀饭的一餐算不上完整的一餐。欧洲孩子被培养得对面包有着同样的感觉,很多北美洲人确实认为晚饭不吃肉跟没吃晚饭一样。

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kinship ['kinʃip]

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n. 血缘关系,亲属关系

 
emerge [i'mə:dʒ]

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vi. 浮现,(由某种状态)脱出,(事实)显现出来

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grace [greis]

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n. 优美,优雅,恩惠
vt. 使荣耀,使优美

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acquainted [ə'kweintid]

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adj. 有知识的,熟悉的,了解的 动词acquaint

 
setting ['setiŋ]

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n. 安装,放置,周围,环境,(为诗等谱写的)乐曲

 
prayer [prɛə]

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n. 祈祷,祷告,祷文
v. 祷告,祷文

 
edible ['edibl]

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n. 食品,食物
adj. 可食用的

 
reverence ['revərəns]

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n. 敬畏,尊敬,尊严 v. 尊敬,敬畏,崇敬 Reve

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