Culture is an umbrella term which encompasses the social behavior and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities and habits of the individuals in these groups. Wikipedia
文化是一個比宗教廣泛的多的概念,宗教僅僅是文化中包含的很小的一部分。你可以說,一些人把西方的某種理論,某些做法,習慣當作宗教來信奉, 你不能說把西方文化當作宗教來信奉,這說法可以說是“羯鼓四撾”--- 不通。
另外,如果你用“had to”, 這就不是typo的問題了。 Had to 包含沒有選擇的意思, 你沒有足夠資格說希臘人在那時沒有選擇,隻有向古埃及人學習。“the Greeks had learnt from the Egyptians,” 意思僅僅是陳述希臘人向古埃及人學了什麽(我認為這是你的本意),而the Greeks had to learn from the Egyptians” 則是論斷希臘人沒有別的選擇(我不認為你對希臘曆史的研究資曆能達到下這個論斷的程度,我甚至不認為任何古希臘曆史研究學者有資格下這個論斷)。
By the way, 你還沒有回答我的問題:“Here, you didn’t explain the reason why a person can’t be truly inspired by something without knowing its whole history, which seems to me not true at all.”
對一些基本概念的理解和陳述都如此含混不清,你還敢以那樣輕佻自大的口氣(例如,把“think”打上引號,似乎天下人裏麵隻有你會真正“think”似的!)論斷一個嚴肅的學者,你不覺得臉紅嗎?