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Another example of a low-context culture is people's attitude towards time. In terms of time, I said before there was a polychronic sense of time in a high-context culture.
還有一個低語境文化的例子是人們對時間的態度。在時間方面，我之前說過，在高情境文化中有一種多元時間觀念。
What do you think there would be in a low-context culture? Monochronic! Right! A monochronic sense of time and by that we mean that there is one time.
你認為在低語境文化中會有什么？單一時間觀念！沒錯！一種單一的時間觀念，即只存在一種時間。
And that concept means that people in a low-context culture believe that there's one standard of time and that should be for everything.
這個概念意味著在低語境文化下的人們認為只有一種時間標準且這個時間標準應該適用于所有事物。
And so I'm not willing to hear "Oh, the traffic was heavy. That's why I am late." or "Oh, I slept late."
所以我不愿意聽到“哦，路上很堵，所以我遲到了?！被蛘摺芭?，我睡過了?！?/div>
People in a low-context culture would be much more upset with lateness because they feel that everyone should follow the same time;
在低語境文化下，人們會對遲到更加反感，因為他們覺得每個人都應該遵守同樣的時間標準；
there shouldn't be all this flexibility with time and they expect punctuality.
時間不應該有那么多的變動，他們希望準時。
And they look at time as almost a commodity that they use expressions like "use time", "to waste time", "to spend time" or "time is money".
他們把時間看作是一種商品，他們會使用“使用時間”、“浪費時間”、“花時間”或“時間就是金錢”等表達方式。
All of these expressions reinforce the concept that time is actually something you can hold onto.
所有這些表達都強化了這樣的概念，即時間實際上是你可以把握的。
So what this is all about is that Hall expresses that people need to be aware of these different assumptions or concepts about reality.
這就是霍爾想要表達的，人們需要意識到這些對現實的不同預設或者概念。
And he thinks that this has all kinds of relevance no matter what you're doing, if you're in business, negotiations, interpersonal relations.
他認為，無論你在做什么，在商業、談判、人際關系中，這都有很強的影響。
If you're dealing with people from different cultures in any way, it's going to affect every part of your life.
如果你和來自不同文化背景的人打交道，這會影響到你生活的方方面面。
In any multicultural situation, these assumptions need to be taken into account for successful interactions.
在多文化情境下，想要成功完成交流都要考慮到這些預設。
Ok, today, we'll take a brief look at Edward Hall's view of culture, mainly his classification of high or low context culture with some examples.
今天，我們簡要地看一下愛德華·霍爾的文化觀點，主要是他對高低語境文化的分類，還有幾個例子。
Next week, we'll look at some more examples of cultures on the continum between high-context and low-context cultures.
下個星期，我們將會看到更多連續體上高低語境文化之間其他文化的例子。
